{
  "schema_version": 2,
  "title": "Assyria through space and time",
  "authorship": "Assyria | The Living Archive. Original editorial text and schematic coordinates. No ancient boundary has been surveyed or traced from a published map.",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0 for original atlas text and historical coordinate sketches; Natural Earth basemap data is public domain.",
  "licence_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "method": "Discrete dated teaching sketches sourced to named historical works. The original polygons are editorial approximations, not GIS reconstructions of provincial borders, and the reconstruction scope is recorded for each chapter. Solid shading is a broad zone of more sustained political control; hatched shading groups unlike relationships (vassalage, tribute, contested rule, campaigns). Neither shading type is precise, homogeneous or comparable in measured area. The 612 and 609 BCE boundaries remain unpinned. Modern borders are only a geographical reference layer. Article titles in the related-reading routes are mirrored from the maintained editorial collection and checked by the validator.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "met-assyria",
      "title": "Assyria, 1365-609 B.C.",
      "author": "Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art",
      "url": "https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/assyria-1365-609-b-c",
      "note": "Middle Assyrian recovery, territorial contraction and ninth-century recovery. Chronologies vary between publications."
    },
    {
      "id": "aebp-countries",
      "title": "Countries and peoples",
      "author": "Assyrian Empire Builders, University College London / ORACC",
      "url": "https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/aebp/Essentials/Countries/index.html",
      "note": "The Assur-Nineveh-Arbela heartland and the different relationships between Assyria and surrounding states."
    },
    {
      "id": "aebp-tiglath",
      "title": "Tiglath-pileser III, king of Assyria (744-727 BC)",
      "author": "Karen Radner, Assyrian Empire Builders, University College London / ORACC",
      "url": "https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/aebp/Essentials/Kings/Tiglath-pileserIII/index.html",
      "note": "Western annexations, including Damascus in 732 BCE; growth towards the Persian Gulf."
    },
    {
      "id": "aebp-sargon",
      "title": "Sargon II, king of Assyria (721-705 BC)",
      "author": "Karen Radner, Assyrian Empire Builders, University College London / ORACC",
      "url": "https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/aebp/Essentials/Kings/SargonII/index.html",
      "note": "Rebellion, campaigning and consolidation. Accession conventions differ; the snapshot is at the end of the reign."
    },
    {
      "id": "aebp-babylonia",
      "title": "Babylon and the cities and tribes of Southern Mesopotamia",
      "author": "Chaitanya Kanchan and Karen Radner, Assyrian Empire Builders, University College London / ORACC",
      "url": "https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/aebp/Essentials/Countries/Babylonia/index.html",
      "note": "Babylonia was not simply annexed wholesale as an Assyrian province. Assyrian kingship and control there took different forms."
    },
    {
      "id": "oracc-egypt",
      "title": "Egyptian in hieroglyphic script",
      "author": "Nimrud: Materialities of Assyrian Knowledge Production / ORACC",
      "url": "https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/nimrud/ancientkalhu/thewritings/egyptian/index.html",
      "note": "Esarhaddon's successful campaign against Egypt in 671 BCE."
    },
    {
      "id": "met-egypt",
      "title": "Egypt in the Late Period (ca. 664-332 B.C.)",
      "author": "Department of Egyptian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art",
      "url": "https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/egypt-in-the-late-period-ca-712-332-b-c",
      "note": "Egypt's transition from Assyrian vassal to independent ally; Psamtik I controlled the south by 656 BCE."
    },
    {
      "id": "bm-chronicle",
      "title": "Babylonian Chronicle, British Museum 1896,0409.6 (BM 21901)",
      "author": "The British Museum, object 1896,0409.6",
      "url": "https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1896-0409-6",
      "note": "Original tablet catalogue for events between 616 and 609 BCE, including Nineveh and Harran; the tablet is a later copy recording events, not a historical boundary dataset."
    },
    {
      "id": "oracc-shalmaneser",
      "title": "Shalmaneser III: royal inscriptions (Q004636)",
      "author": "Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online / ORACC",
      "url": "https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/riao/Q004636/",
      "note": "Royal claims to campaigns and dominion in the west. Such claims are political texts and do not establish uniform provincial borders."
    },
    {
      "id": "aebp-vassals",
      "title": "Representing Assyrian interests in the vassal states",
      "author": "Assyrian Empire Builders, University College London / ORACC",
      "url": "https://oracc2.museum.upenn.edu/saao/aebp/essentials/diplomats/representingassyria/index.html",
      "note": "Explains the difference between annexed provinces, dependent kings, tribute and political relations."
    },
    {
      "id": "aebp-israel",
      "title": "Israel, the House of Omri",
      "author": "Assyrian Empire Builders, University College London / ORACC",
      "url": "https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/aebp/essentials/countries/israel/",
      "note": "Describes northern Israelite provincial annexations, vassal kingship and Damascus in 732 BCE; do not infer exact boundaries from this essay."
    }
  ],
  "snapshots": [
    {
      "year": -1350,
      "period": "Middle Assyrian recovery",
      "title": "From the Assyrian heartland",
      "summary": "Under Ashur-uballit I, Assyria recovered independence and extended its power north from Ashur towards Nineveh and Arbela. This small northern Mesopotamian core became the foundation for later expansion.",
      "caution": "A broad heartland sketch, not the boundary of a single campaign. The city-state and its trading networks have a much earlier history.",
      "control": [
        "heartland"
      ],
      "influence": [],
      "sources": [
        "met-assyria",
        "aebp-countries"
      ],
      "focus": "ashur",
      "fallen": [],
      "reconstruction": {
        "status": "broad-reconstruction",
        "boundary_note": "The outline groups the Assur-Nineveh-Arbela heartland without tracing district limits in 1350 BCE.",
        "control_note": "A schematic core of Assyrian political institutions, not a surveyed frontier.",
        "influence_note": "No indirect region is mapped. That does not prove neighbouring states were unaffected."
      },
      "article_slugs": [
        "ancient-assyria",
        "ashur",
        "assyrian-governance"
      ],
      "evidence_notes": [
        {
          "source_id": "met-assyria",
          "scope": "Historical synthesis for Middle Assyrian expansion and relative chronology."
        },
        {
          "source_id": "aebp-countries",
          "scope": "Regional heartland context; not a published ancient boundary geometry."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "year": -1250,
      "period": "Middle Assyrian expansion",
      "title": "Across northern Mesopotamia",
      "summary": "Successors of Ashur-uballit pushed Assyrian control west through former Mitannian lands towards the Euphrates. The map shows the northern territorial state before Tukulti-Ninurta I's later conquest of Babylon.",
      "caution": "The western and mountain frontiers are generalised. Later victories in Babylonia are not projected backwards into this snapshot.",
      "control": [
        "middle"
      ],
      "influence": [],
      "sources": [
        "met-assyria"
      ],
      "focus": "ashur",
      "fallen": [],
      "reconstruction": {
        "status": "broad-reconstruction",
        "boundary_note": "The wider northern outline combines historical growth over a long period. Individual conquest dates differ from the illustrative year.",
        "control_note": "Generalised northern territorial expansion, not a consistent provincial map.",
        "influence_note": "No separate influence polygon is included; other forms of contact are not ruled out."
      },
      "article_slugs": [
        "ancient-assyria",
        "assyrian-governance"
      ],
      "evidence_notes": [
        {
          "source_id": "met-assyria",
          "scope": "Historical overview of Middle Assyrian political change, not an exact-border source."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "year": -1050,
      "period": "Contraction",
      "title": "A smaller territorial state",
      "summary": "Aramaean expansion and pressure on Assyrian centres reduced Assyria's hold over Upper Mesopotamia towards the end of the second millennium BCE. The surviving heartland remained a base for recovery.",
      "caution": "The smaller shape is a schematic retreat to the core; the exact frontier in 1050 BCE is not securely reconstructed here.",
      "control": [
        "heartland"
      ],
      "influence": [],
      "sources": [
        "met-assyria"
      ],
      "focus": "ashur",
      "fallen": [],
      "reconstruction": {
        "status": "highly-generalised",
        "boundary_note": "Evidence does not justify an exact frontier for 1050 BCE; the reduced outline represents the continuing political heartland only.",
        "control_note": "A schematic nucleus during territorial contraction.",
        "influence_note": "The absence of shaded influence is a cartographic omission, not evidence of no contacts."
      },
      "article_slugs": [
        "ancient-assyria",
        "ashur",
        "post-imperial-assyria"
      ],
      "evidence_notes": [
        {
          "source_id": "met-assyria",
          "scope": "Historical synthesis of contraction; no precise contemporaneous perimeter established."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "year": -859,
      "period": "Neo-Assyrian recovery",
      "title": "Recovery under Ashurnasirpal II",
      "summary": "Assyria recovered much of its earlier northern territory under Ashurnasirpal II. Kalhu, now Nimrud, became a royal capital. Campaigns and tribute reached beyond the area of sustained territorial control.",
      "caution": "The solid shape represents a broad territorial nucleus. A campaign to the Mediterranean does not make the whole Levant an Assyrian province.",
      "control": [
        "recovery"
      ],
      "influence": [],
      "sources": [
        "met-assyria"
      ],
      "focus": "kalhu",
      "fallen": [],
      "reconstruction": {
        "status": "broad-reconstruction",
        "boundary_note": "The outline generalises ninth-century recovery and should not be used to infer the borders of every campaign.",
        "control_note": "Broad territorial nucleus, rather than the full reach of royal military claims.",
        "influence_note": "Unshaded campaign destinations must not be read as places with no Assyrian interaction."
      },
      "article_slugs": [
        "ashurnasirpal-ii",
        "nimrud",
        "royal-reliefs"
      ],
      "evidence_notes": [
        {
          "source_id": "met-assyria",
          "scope": "Reign chronology and revival of imperial building and political power."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "year": -824,
      "period": "Expansion and tribute",
      "title": "Looking west under Shalmaneser III",
      "summary": "Shalmaneser III repeatedly campaigned beyond the Euphrates. Assyria combined a northern Mesopotamian territorial base with tribute and pressure on western kingdoms. The patterned zone represents a broad sphere of intervention and tributary relationships.",
      "caution": "Royal inscriptions magnify conquest. The patterned zone is not a claim that every western kingdom was simultaneously annexed or continuously obedient.",
      "control": [
        "ninth-century"
      ],
      "influence": [
        "western-tributaries"
      ],
      "sources": [
        "oracc-shalmaneser",
        "aebp-countries"
      ],
      "focus": "kalhu",
      "fallen": [],
      "reconstruction": {
        "status": "highly-generalised",
        "boundary_note": "Repeated campaigns did not create one fixed western border; the hatched west is a deliberately broad envelope.",
        "control_note": "Approximate Assyrian northern political base, not a province-by-province reconstruction.",
        "influence_note": "Hatching combines royal campaigning, diplomatic pressure and tributary relationships that varied across time and location."
      },
      "article_slugs": [
        "shalmaneser-iii",
        "assyrian-governance",
        "ancient-assyria"
      ],
      "evidence_notes": [
        {
          "source_id": "oracc-shalmaneser",
          "scope": "Royal inscriptions report western campaigning; the text is political testimony, not a geospatial survey."
        },
        {
          "source_id": "aebp-countries",
          "scope": "Secondary context for different relationships between neighbouring states."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "year": -727,
      "period": "Annexation and reorganisation",
      "title": "A wider empire under Tiglath-pileser III",
      "summary": "Western kingdoms were increasingly converted into provinces. Damascus was annexed in 732 BCE, alongside further changes in the northern kingdom of Israel. Assyrian power also extended into Babylonia, where kingship and local institutions require separate treatment.",
      "caution": "Babylonia is patterned to distinguish its political relationship from straightforward provincial annexation. The outlines combine regional changes over a reign.",
      "control": [
        "eighth-century"
      ],
      "influence": [
        "babylonia",
        "southern-levant"
      ],
      "sources": [
        "aebp-tiglath",
        "aebp-babylonia",
        "aebp-israel",
        "aebp-vassals"
      ],
      "focus": "damascus",
      "fallen": [],
      "biblical": {
        "note": "The Bible records Tiglath Pileser's campaigns, deportation and relationship with Ahaz. These passages do not supply this map's BCE date or boundary coordinates.",
        "passages": [
          {
            "label": "2 Kings 15:19-29",
            "url": "/bible/read/2ki/15/#v-19"
          },
          {
            "label": "2 Kings 16:7-18",
            "url": "/bible/read/2ki/16/#v-7"
          }
        ]
      },
      "reconstruction": {
        "status": "highly-generalised",
        "boundary_note": "This sketch merges changing western provinces and dependent kingdoms near the end of a reign; it does not identify exact administrative lines.",
        "control_note": "Damascus and parts of northern Israel were annexed, while southern Israel remained a dependent kingdom; the solid shape is only a regional synthesis.",
        "influence_note": "The southern Levant includes vassal relationships; Babylonia has a separate and changing political relationship, not blanket provincial annexation."
      },
      "article_slugs": [
        "tiglath-pileser-iii",
        "assyrian-governance",
        "assyrian-deportation",
        "bible-tiglath-pileser"
      ],
      "evidence_notes": [
        {
          "source_id": "aebp-tiglath",
          "scope": "Specialist reconstruction of annexations and administration under Tiglath-pileser III."
        },
        {
          "source_id": "aebp-israel",
          "scope": "Separates the annexed northern Israelite provinces from the remaining dependent kingdom."
        },
        {
          "source_id": "aebp-vassals",
          "scope": "Documents distinction between provinces and dependent states."
        },
        {
          "source_id": "aebp-babylonia",
          "scope": "Babylonia's political status was not equivalent to ordinary annexed provinces."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "year": -705,
      "period": "Sargonid consolidation",
      "title": "Empire and a new royal city",
      "summary": "Sargon II faced rebellions and consolidated Assyrian power across the west and east. His new capital, Dur-Sharrukin, expressed imperial ambition. Babylonia remained politically distinctive rather than becoming one uniform block of Assyrian provinces.",
      "caution": "The outline is a regional sketch at the end of the reign, not a reconstruction of every province, tributary or disputed mountain district.",
      "control": [
        "sargonid"
      ],
      "influence": [
        "babylonia",
        "southern-levant"
      ],
      "sources": [
        "aebp-sargon",
        "aebp-babylonia",
        "aebp-vassals"
      ],
      "focus": "dur-sharrukin",
      "fallen": [],
      "biblical": {
        "note": "Isaiah 20:1 names Sargon and the capture of Ashdod. It does not name Dur-Sharrukin or give the territory drawn here.",
        "passages": [
          {
            "label": "Isaiah 20:1-6",
            "url": "/bible/read/isa/20/#v-1"
          }
        ]
      },
      "reconstruction": {
        "status": "highly-generalised",
        "boundary_note": "The outline compresses many campaigns and administrative changes into an end-of-reign teaching image.",
        "control_note": "Broadest recurrent Assyrian-controlled regions, with a mix of directly administered and differently integrated areas.",
        "influence_note": "Hatching illustrates less uniform political dependencies and contested Babylonia, not constant or universal obedience."
      },
      "article_slugs": [
        "sargon-ii",
        "khorsabad",
        "assyrian-governance",
        "bible-sargon"
      ],
      "evidence_notes": [
        {
          "source_id": "aebp-sargon",
          "scope": "Scholarly narrative of campaigns, rebellions and royal city, not a measured frontier."
        },
        {
          "source_id": "aebp-vassals",
          "scope": "Vassal/province distinction carried forward into later Assyrian governance."
        },
        {
          "source_id": "aebp-babylonia",
          "scope": "Babylonia's kingship and local political institutions need separate treatment."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "year": -671,
      "period": "Reach into Egypt",
      "title": "An empire reaching the Nile",
      "summary": "Esarhaddon's successful invasion of Egypt in 671 BCE extended Assyrian intervention into the Nile Delta and the region of Memphis. This was a major imperial reach, maintained through local rulers and repeated military action.",
      "caution": "Only Lower Egypt is shaded here. Short-lived conquest and indirect rule should not be read as permanent provincial control over all Egypt or Kush.",
      "control": [
        "sargonid"
      ],
      "influence": [
        "babylonia",
        "southern-levant",
        "lower-egypt"
      ],
      "sources": [
        "oracc-egypt",
        "aebp-babylonia",
        "aebp-vassals"
      ],
      "focus": "memphis",
      "fallen": [],
      "biblical": {
        "note": "Kings and Isaiah record Esar Haddon succeeding Sennacherib. These verses concern succession, not the date or extent of the Egyptian conquest.",
        "passages": [
          {
            "label": "2 Kings 19:36-37",
            "url": "/bible/read/2ki/19/#v-36"
          },
          {
            "label": "Isaiah 37:37-38",
            "url": "/bible/read/isa/37/#v-37"
          }
        ]
      },
      "reconstruction": {
        "status": "highly-generalised",
        "boundary_note": "The Nile Delta shading is deliberately not an Egyptian provincial boundary. It indicates military reach and unstable indirect arrangements.",
        "control_note": "The Mesopotamian and Levantine solid zone remains a schematic synthesis, not an administration map.",
        "influence_note": "Egypt is shown as short-lived conquest and indirect influence around Memphis and Lower Egypt; it does not imply lasting uniform control of Egypt or Kush."
      },
      "article_slugs": [
        "esarhaddon",
        "assyrian-governance",
        "bible-esarhaddon",
        "sennacherib"
      ],
      "evidence_notes": [
        {
          "source_id": "oracc-egypt",
          "scope": "Historical context for Esarhaddon's Egyptian campaign; not a border geometry source."
        },
        {
          "source_id": "aebp-babylonia",
          "scope": "Babylonia remains politically distinctive under Assyrian kingship."
        },
        {
          "source_id": "aebp-vassals",
          "scope": "Vassal and indirect control are different from directly administered provinces."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "year": -650,
      "period": "An uneven empire",
      "title": "Egypt moves beyond Assyrian control",
      "summary": "Under the Saite dynasty, Egypt moved from Assyrian vassalage to independence. Psamtik I had brought the south under his authority by 656 BCE. Assyria still held a large Asian empire, but its political relationships were neither uniform nor stable.",
      "caution": "Egypt is removed from the overlay. Babylonia remains patterned: control there was contested, including the rebellion of 652-648 BCE.",
      "control": [
        "sargonid"
      ],
      "influence": [
        "babylonia",
        "southern-levant"
      ],
      "sources": [
        "met-egypt",
        "aebp-babylonia"
      ],
      "focus": "nineveh",
      "fallen": [],
      "reconstruction": {
        "status": "highly-generalised",
        "boundary_note": "The snapshot records Assyria's changed reach after Egypt's increasing independence, not precise district control in 650 BCE.",
        "control_note": "A broad Asian imperial core, not a uniform guarantee of effective local rule.",
        "influence_note": "Babylonia is shown as contested; southern Levantine connections varied. Egypt is not shaded, which must not be read as a border claim."
      },
      "article_slugs": [
        "ashurbanipal",
        "assyrian-governance",
        "assyrian-deportation"
      ],
      "evidence_notes": [
        {
          "source_id": "met-egypt",
          "scope": "Chronology of Egypt's transition from Assyrian-backed rulers to Saite autonomy."
        },
        {
          "source_id": "aebp-babylonia",
          "scope": "Political instability and rebellion in Babylonia."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "year": -612,
      "period": "Collapse and retreat",
      "title": "Nineveh falls; resistance continues",
      "summary": "Ashur fell to the Medes in 614 BCE. In 612 BCE, the Medes and Babylonians besieged and sacked Nineveh. Surviving Assyrian forces gathered at Harran under Ashur-uballit II.",
      "caution": "No territorial polygon is drawn: the boundaries of surviving Assyrian control are not established here. The highlighted point marks the rallying city, not a new empire. ",
      "control": [],
      "influence": [],
      "sources": [
        "bm-chronicle"
      ],
      "focus": "harran",
      "fallen": [
        "ashur",
        "nineveh",
        "kalhu"
      ],
      "biblical": {
        "note": "Nahum and Zephaniah announce judgement on Nineveh. These biblical passages do not give 612 BCE as an absolute date; that chronology is supplied by the other cited evidence.",
        "passages": [
          {
            "label": "Nahum 1:1",
            "url": "/bible/read/nah/1/#v-1"
          },
          {
            "label": "Zephaniah 2:13-15",
            "url": "/bible/read/zep/2/#v-13"
          }
        ]
      },
      "reconstruction": {
        "status": "unmapped",
        "boundary_note": "After Nineveh's capture, surviving forces and local allegiances cannot be converted responsibly into a single territorial outline.",
        "control_note": "No solid polygon is drawn. This means not mapped, not absent.",
        "influence_note": "No hatched polygon is drawn because surviving relations cannot be reconstructed reliably at this scale."
      },
      "article_slugs": [
        "fall-of-nineveh",
        "nineveh",
        "post-imperial-assyria",
        "bible-nahum"
      ],
      "evidence_notes": [
        {
          "source_id": "bm-chronicle",
          "scope": "Museum catalogue of Babylonian chronicle BM 21901, providing the 612 BCE capture narrative and retreat toward Harran."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "year": -609,
      "period": "End of the imperial state",
      "title": "The imperial chapter closes",
      "summary": "Harran fell in 610/609 BCE. Assyrian and Egyptian forces attempted to recover it, but their siege failed. This marks the end of this map's account of the ancient imperial state. Assyrian communities and cultural histories continue beyond its borders and dates.",
      "caution": "An empty overlay means no imperial territory is mapped. It does not mean the land was empty, or that Assyrian people disappeared. See the wider archive for later histories.",
      "control": [],
      "influence": [],
      "sources": [
        "bm-chronicle"
      ],
      "focus": "harran",
      "fallen": [
        "ashur",
        "nineveh",
        "kalhu",
        "harran"
      ],
      "reconstruction": {
        "status": "unmapped",
        "boundary_note": "The remaining Assyrian military resistance at Harran does not establish a defensible region of direct rule to shade.",
        "control_note": "No ancient political boundary is asserted for 609 BCE.",
        "influence_note": "Political and military activity is attested, but no stable sphere is mapped."
      },
      "article_slugs": [
        "fall-of-nineveh",
        "post-imperial-assyria",
        "ancient-assyria"
      ],
      "evidence_notes": [
        {
          "source_id": "bm-chronicle",
          "scope": "Museum catalogue documents the Harran campaign and unsuccessful attempt to recover the city."
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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          "method": "Original schematic interpretation; not a surveyed or digitised ancient boundary"
        },
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