Con tu justo cetro, extiende tu tierra: la legitimación de la guerra en Asiria a finales del segundo milenio a.C.

Abstract

The violent and destructive image of Assyria started to emerge at the end of the XIV century B.C. The entrance of Assyria into the international stage and the subsequent initiation of an aggressive policy broke the political balance established in the diplomatic era. In the beginning of the XIII century B.C., Tukulti-Ninurta I conquered Babylon and set the wheels in motion for a new ideological program in order to purify and justify the Assyrian acts through divine sanction.