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Two emissaries being presented to Assurnasirpal II, part of a procession depicted on either sides of the gate entering the throne room. Photo by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) via Wikimedia CC By-SA 4.0

December 27, 2019

By ANE Today Editor

Assyria History Levant Politics & Government Trade & Economy

Israelite and Judahite Ambassadors to Assyria

In antiquity as today, ambassadors were the representatives of their states in foreign lands. But whose interests did ambassadors from small states to terrifying empires really rep