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-==The Banquet Stela of Assurnasirpal II==+==The Banquet Stele of Assurnasirpal II==
  
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-//Artifact//: Stela\\ +//Artifact//: Stele\\ 
 //Provenience//: Nimrud\\  //Provenience//: Nimrud\\ 
 //Period//: Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)\\  //Period//: Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)\\ 
-//Current location//: \\ +//Current location//: Mosul Museum, Iraq\\ 
 //Text genre, language//: Royal inscription; Akkadian\\  //Text genre, language//: Royal inscription; Akkadian\\ 
-[[http://cdli.ucla.edu/pnnnnnn |CDLI page]]\\ +[[http://cdli.ucla.edu/P463664 |CDLI page]]\\ 
  
-//Description//: Lorem ipsum dolor sit ametconsectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquaUt enim ad minim veniamquis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequatDuis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariaturExcepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proidentsunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum+//Description//: The Banquet Stele of Assurnasirpal II records the ninth century Neo-Assyrian king's renovation of the city of Kalhu (modern-day Nimrud)which he made his capitalIt boasts of the lavish palace and gardens he builtthe restoration of temples, and the resettlement and rejuvenation of surrounding townsThe 'banquet' moniker derives from its most unique claim: that in 879 BC, Assurnasirpal II celebrated his new capital with a lavish feast at which he served 69574 people--male and female, local and foreign envoy--with an obscene amount of meat, poultry, vegetables, and alcoholThis number seems impossibly highand was likely a typically bombastic royal exaggeration. All the same, this is good evidence that luxurious mass public feasting was one possible feature of royal events. (Eva Miller, University of Oxford) 
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 +[[http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/nimrud/livesofobjects/standardinscription/|ORACC on The Banquet Stele of Assurnasirpal II]]
  
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-//Edition(s)//:+//Edition(s)//: Wiseman, D.J. 1952. "A new stela of Aššur-naṣir-pal II", Iraq 14, pp. 24-44; Grayson, A.K., 1991. Assyrian Rulers of the Early First Millennium BC: I (1114-859 BC) (Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia. Assyrian Periods. Volume 2), Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 288-293, RIMA.0.101.30
  
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