THE ASSYRIAN KING AND HIS SCHOLARS: THE SYRO-ANATOLIAN AND THE EGYPTIAN SCHOOLS1

Abstract

The article highlights the presence of scholars from Egypt and Syro-Anatolia in the service of the Neo-Assyrian kings. 1. THE KING AND HIS RETINUE OF SCHOLARS In the mid-7th century, when Assyria was the most powerful state in the Near East and the eastern Mediterranean region, its territories stretched far beyond the Assyrian homeland in Northern Iraq: All of Iraq and most of Syria, wide sweeps o