How did the Persian King of Kings Get His Wine? the upper Tigris in
antiquity (c.700 BCE to 636 CE)' explores the upper valley of the
Tigris during antiquity. The area is little known to scholarship,
and study is currently handicapped by the security situation in
southeast Turkey and by the completion during 2018 of the Ilisu
dam. The reservoir being created will drown a large part of the
valley and will destroy many archaeological sites, some of which
have not been investigated. The course of the upper Tigris
discussed here is the section from Mosul up to its source north of
Diyarbakir; the monograph describes the history of the river valley
from the end of the Late Assyrian empire through to the Arab
conquests, thus including the conflicts between Rome and Persia. It
considers the transport network by river and road and provides an
assessment of the damage to cultural heritage caused both by the
Saddam dam (also known as the Eski Mosul dam) in Iraq and by the
Ilisu dam in south-east Turkey. A catalogue describes the sites
important during the long period under review in and around the
valley. During the period reviewed this area was strategically
important for Assyria's relations with its northern neighbours, for
the Hellenistic world's relations with Persia and for Roman
relations with first the kingdom of Parthia and then with Sassanian
Persia.
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