Ruling over Time. The Calendar in the Neo-Assyrian Royal Propaganda

The purpose of this article is to investigate the significance of the calendar in first millen-nium BCE Assyria: written sources provide us with useful information with regard to the perception that the Neo-Assyrian society had of calendrical issues. One gets the impres-sion that not only there was a considerable consciousness of the religious calendar and the observance of festivals in the proper days, but the awareness of the importance of the control of timing was so developed that it was even incorporated into the semantics of the royal propaganda. Among the many powers that a Neo-Assyrian king could boast, thus, there was also the one of ruling over time