Tiglath-pileser I was an important Middle Assyrian king who reigned in the late twelfth to early eleventh centuries BCE from his capital city of Assur in northern Mesopotamia. At this time, the Ancient Near East was descending into a “dark age,” when documentation for reconstructing history is fairly scarce. The researcher will collect the textual and archaeological material from Tiglath-pileser’s reign that has recently become available and promises to bring further illumination to the period. Additionally, specific attention will be given to this king’s role as a transitional figure from the Middle Assyrian territorial state of the second millennium to the Neo-Assyrian empire of the first. [table “6” not found /]
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