IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/frochp/978-3-031-08763-9_9.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Political/Ideological Display or Economic Need? The Problematical Picture of the Hydraulic Networks in Seventh Century BC Assyria

In: Ancient Economies in Comparative Perspective

Author

Listed:
  • Frederick Mario Fales

    (Università degli Studi di Udine)

Abstract

The debate over the vast hydraulic systems implemented in Assyria (mostly under Sennacherib, 704–681 B.C.) still rages even after more than a decade of heated discussions. Hydraulic systems are either seen as the sign of imperialistic display or as a technologically advanced response to the problem of water supply. The question involves many disciplines: philology (official texts of Assyrian kings), archaeology (accurate study of the territories involved), modern satellite analyses and economic history. From the point of view of this last discipline the main point is the economic relevance of this exceptional engineering public work in comparison to its instrumental use for political display.

Suggested Citation

  • Frederick Mario Fales, 2022. "Political/Ideological Display or Economic Need? The Problematical Picture of the Hydraulic Networks in Seventh Century BC Assyria," Frontiers in Economic History, in: Marcella Frangipane & Monika Poettinger & Bertram Schefold (ed.), Ancient Economies in Comparative Perspective, pages 165-186, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:frochp:978-3-031-08763-9_9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-08763-9_9
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:frochp:978-3-031-08763-9_9. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.