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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    wedges and square angles, making them significantly more abstract: "Assurbanipal King of Assyria" Aššur-bani-habal šar mat Aššur KI Same characters, in...
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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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    Mesopotamian literary texts. They include: George Smith (1871). History of Assurbanipal, translated from the cuneiform inscriptions. George Smith (1875). Assyrian...
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    Mesopotamian astronomy treatise, discovered at Nineveh in the library of Assurbanipal and dating from no later than 627 BC, presents a list of deities [holders...
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    Similar attitudes were held by Assyrian rulers such as Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal. No reference to Amalek or the Amalekites has been found in surviving...
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    Sassanid era. The name may be attested on cuneiform tablets of Assyrian Assurbanipal, in the form Assara Mazaš, but that interpretation is very controversial...
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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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    political center. Myths in which Ea figures prominently have been found in Assurbanipal's library, and in the Hattusas archive in Hittite Anatolia. As Ea, Enki...
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    Urmahlullu relief from a bathroom in the palace of Assurbanipal in Ninevah...
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    the Age of Assyria. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-068763-2. "AŠŠURBANIPAL – Encyclopaedia Iranica". iranicaonline.org. Retrieved 2020-11-07. Brown...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    was also a bilingual (Sumerian and Akkadian) version in the library of Assurbanipal, and one very fragmented tablet from the Middle Assyrian period that...
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    system of making periodical reports to the king came into being. Thus, Assurbanipal received swift messengers detailing "all occurrences in heaven and earth"...
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    reconstruction and translation of this states: "When Above" Palace of Assurbanipal king of nations, king of Assyria to whom Nebo and Tasmit attentive ears...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • BC and is identified in letters of the Assyrian kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal. Atarsamain may be identical with Allāt, whose cult was centred on Palmyra...
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    "Ishtar of Nineveh and Her Collaborator, Ishtar of Arbela, in the Reign of Assurbanipal". Iraq. 66: 41–44. doi:10.2307/4200556. ISSN 0021-0889. JSTOR 4200556...
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  • Akkadian, its adjurations extend to nine clay tablets and, at Nineveh, Assurbanipal's scribes had canonized the series, fixing the sequence and providing...
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