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    modern times. In 1958, surrealist painter Leonora Carrington painted Assurbanipal Abluting Harpies, an oil on canvas at the Israel Museum depicting Ashurbanipal...
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  • Greek-chronicled solar eclipse. 647 BC — King Assurbanipal of Assyria sacks Susa. c. 647 BC — The wall panel Assurbanipal and his Queen in the garden, from the...
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    capturing Memphis as well as a number of the royal family. 669 BC: Assurbanipal succeeds his father Esarhaddon as king of Assyria. 669 BC: Argos defeats...
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    pp. 290–296. "Rassam cylinder British Museum". The British Museum. "Assurbanipal's Library" Archived 2012-07-24 at the Wayback Machine, Knowledge and Power...
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    Urmahlullu relief from a bathroom in the palace of Assurbanipal in Ninevah...
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    replaced by that of the Assyrian dialect of the Akkadian language: "Assurbanipal King of Assyria" Aššur-bani-habal šar mat Aššur KI Same characters, in...
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    it would remain one of the most important objectives in the mind of Assurbanipal. In 648 BC, the Elamite city of Susa was razed to the ground; it was...
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  • This article concerns the period 629 BC – 620 BC. c. 627 BC—Death of Assurbanipal, king of Assyria; he is succeeded by Assur-etel-ilani. 627 BC—Creation...
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    there is archaeological evidence of his water engineering. His grandson Assurbanipal pictured the mature garden on a sculptured wall panel in his palace....
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    Babylonian creation epic, the Enūma Eliš, taken from the library of Assurbanipal (c. 630 BCE) but which is about 500 years older. In this story, he was...
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    Aššur, and Arbela (modern Erbil). During the reign of the Assyrian king Assurbanipal, Ishtar rose to become the most important and widely venerated deity...
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    Lydians under such a name occurs in Neo-Assyrian sources. The annals of Assurbanipal (mid-7th century BC) refer to the embassy of Gu(g)gu, king of Luddi,...
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  • Padanu, and Pan Takalti of the Babylonian Extispicy Series Mainly from Assurbanipal's Library. Museum Tusculanum. p. 394. Chronicle P, column 4, lines 10...
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    They send building materials to Nineveh. Moab militarily supported Assurbanipal during his campaign against Egypt and the pharaoh Taharqa. The status...
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    Shalmaneser I, Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal. Inscriptions from Assurbanipal record oracular dreams inspired by Ishtar of Erbil. Assurbanipal probably held court...
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    off the spoils. Belligerents Assyria Elam Commanders and leaders King Assurbanipal King Humban-haltash III Strength Unknown Unknown Casualties and losses...
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  • Assyrian inscriptions from the reign of Assurbanipal. He was one of the rebellious client kings punished by Assurbanipal during the latter's Arabian campaign...
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    Mesopotamian literary texts. They include: George Smith (1871). History of Assurbanipal, translated from the cuneiform inscriptions. George Smith (1875). Assyrian...
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  • mentioned in Assyrian sources as a king of Moab during the reign of Assurbanipal, who was king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire between 669–631 BCE. Knauf &...
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    currently believed to have been destroyed by the Neo-Assyrian ruler Assurbanipal in about 645 BC, along with the Elamite capital of Susa though some researchers...
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    "Ishtar of Nineveh and Her Collaborator, Ishtar of Arbela, in the Reign of Assurbanipal". Iraq. 66. British Institute for the Study of Iraq: 41–44. doi:10...
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    "Ishtar of Niniveh and her collaborator, Ishtar of Arbela, in the Reign of Assurbanipal", Iraq, vol. 66, pp. 41–44, 2004 Georges Roux – Ancient Iraq 'Directorate...
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    ISBN 978-1-61451-426-8. Quentin, A. (1895). "Inscription Inédite du Roi Assurbanipal: Copiée Au Musée Britannique le 24 Avril 1886". Revue Biblique (1892–1940)...
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  • during the reigns of the Assyrian kings Esarhaddon (681-669 BCE) and Assurbanipal (669-c.627 BCE). His name may mean "the Egyptian." This name may simply...
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    conquered and incorporated into Assyrian territory. — Rassam cylinder of Assurbanipal (extract). Some reliefs from Nineveh are otherwise known that illustrate...
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    tributaries who suffered in the course of the great Arabian campaign of Assurbanipal. Other kings attested to in contemporary sources are Barachel (attested...
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    the Sîn ina tāmartīšu commentary. A fragment from the library of king Assurbanipal (reigning from 669 BCE to 631) at Nineveh. Collection De Liagre Böhl...
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    conquest. A year after the death of the last strong Assyrian ruler, Assurbanipal, in 627 BC, the Assyrian empire spiralled into a series of brutal civil...
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    Ashurbanipal died in 631 or 627, see Lipschits 2005, p. 13 for details. When Assurbanipal died in 627 BCE, ... struggles over succession led to a weakening of...
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    the subjects of astrology, history, mythology, and science. Some of Assurbanipal's astrologers, such as Rammanu-sumausar and Nabu-musisi, became so adept...
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