Assurbanipal and Egypt: A Source Study

Anthony John Spalinger

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THE TITLE OF THE SEVENTH CHAPTER OF OLIMSTEAD'S Assyrian Historiography gives a good indication of the problems that beset the historian when dealing with the campaigns of Assurbanipal: Assurbanipal and Assyrian Editing.1 This monarch had numerous accounts written as records of his military victories, all of which differ in considerable detail. Our purpose here will be to attempt to unravel these traditions with respect to the two Egyptian campaigns, and by means of this, to throw light on Assyrian-Egyptian relations. Before we shall deal with the actual events, it is perhaps best to list our sources and to demonstrate the different traditions that are at work in these documents.2 With respect to the Egyptian

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