Imperial Peripheries in the Neo-Assyrian Period

Craig W. Tyson is associate professor of religious studies at D’Youville College in Buffalo, New York. He is author of The Ammonites: Elites, Empires, and Sociopolitical Change (1000-500 BCE) and several articles on the history and culture of ancient Jordan.

Virginia R. Herrmann is a Junior Research Group Leader in the Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Tübingen and co-director of the Chicago-Tübingen excavations at Zincirli, Turkey. She co-curated the 2014 Oriental Institute Museum exhibit In Remembrance of Me: Feasting with the Dead in the Ancient Middle East.