The Head That Wears the Crown

Seven hundred years before Christ was born, the Assyrian king, Sennacherib, presided over the greatest empire that had ever been. In this story of Naqia, his favourite wife, we are caught up in the turbulent sweep of history, the treachery and the valour and the ordinary lives of those who were connected with her. From the humblest hut to the glorious palaces, we enter a world both foreign in its culture and familiar in its humanity. Through it all, Naqia grows in confidence. Starting as a mere chattel before being pledged to the goddess Ishtar, she later becomes the most powerful woman of her time.

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The Head That Wears the Crown

Seven hundred years before Christ was born, the Assyrian king, Sennacherib, presided over the greatest empire that had ever been. In this story of Naqia, his favourite wife, we are caught up in the turbulent sweep of history, the treachery and the valour and the ordinary lives of those who were connected with her. From the humblest hut to the glorious palaces, we enter a world both foreign in its culture and familiar in its humanity. Through it all, Naqia grows in confidence. Starting as a mere chattel before being pledged to the goddess Ishtar, she later becomes the most powerful woman of her time.

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The Head That Wears the Crown

The Head That Wears the Crown

by Judith Reinken
The Head That Wears the Crown

The Head That Wears the Crown

by Judith Reinken

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Seven hundred years before Christ was born, the Assyrian king, Sennacherib, presided over the greatest empire that had ever been. In this story of Naqia, his favourite wife, we are caught up in the turbulent sweep of history, the treachery and the valour and the ordinary lives of those who were connected with her. From the humblest hut to the glorious palaces, we enter a world both foreign in its culture and familiar in its humanity. Through it all, Naqia grows in confidence. Starting as a mere chattel before being pledged to the goddess Ishtar, she later becomes the most powerful woman of her time.


Product Details

BN ID: 2940165369667
Publisher: BeulahPressNZ
Publication date: 02/01/2021
Sold by: Draft2Digital
Format: eBook
Sales rank: 765,643
File size: 16 MB
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About the Author

Judith Reinken is an historian, scholar and feminist who farms a smallholding in the Far North of New Zealand. When she discovered the whole of the State Archives of Assyria in the library of the University of Auckland, she was intrigued by the story of Naqi'ah (also called Zaqutu) who, as Queen Mother, shared with her son authority to rule their empire. The politics of that time became the story of her life that Dr. Reinken imagined.
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