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Assyrian language = Aramaic (1)

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Aramaic as “Assyrian language”
12 Assyrian Identity
12.02 Assyrian identity in post-Empire times
12.02.03 Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources
12.02.03.08 Aramaic as “Assyrian language”
Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources
12 Assyrian Identity
12.02 Assyrian identity in post-Empire times
12.02.03 Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources

Keywords
Euphrates
Mesopotamia

Period
1st century CE
Roman Empire

Channel
Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Pliny the Elder, Naturalia Historia 6.30:
The whole of Mesopotamia once belonged to the Assyrians, and the population was scattered in villages, with the exception of Babylon and Nineveh. … Some writers record that the Euphrates was diverted into an artificial channel by the governor Gobares at the place where we have stated that it divides, in order to prevent the violence of its current from threatening damage to the district of Babylonia; and that its name among the whole of the Assyrians is Narmalchas, which means the Royal River.

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Pliny the Elder, Naturalia Historia 6.30

Simo Parpola

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