Libbāli-šarrat
Libbāli-šarrat (7th century BC) was the wife of the Assyrian king Aššur-bāni-apli (the biblical "Assurbanipal"). She is known from various cuneiform sources, according to which she married the later ruler when he was still crown prince. Cuneiform texts indicate tensions between the women of the court during this period. Two pictorial representations of the queen have come down to us from the time when Aššur-bāni-apli was king. She appears on a stele from Assyria , which comes from the so-called Stele Square, and she is perhaps represented in a banquet scene from Nineveh with her consort.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Saana Teppo: Women and their Agency in the New-Assyrian Empire , Master's thesis at the University of Helsinki [online: http://ethesis.helsinki.fi/julkaisut/hum/aasia/pg/teppo/ ]. Pp. 39-40
- ↑ Tallay Ornan: The Queen in Public: Royal Women in Neo-Assyrian Art , in S. Parpola and RM Whiting (editors), Sex and Gender, Proceedings of the 47th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Helsinki, July 2-7, 2001 , Part II, Helsinki 2002, pp. 461–477, here especially 461–463
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| SURNAME | Libbāli-šarrat |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Queen of Assyria |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 7th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 7th century BC Chr. |