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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    Mesopotamian literary texts. They include: George Smith (1871). History of Assurbanipal, translated from the cuneiform inscriptions. George Smith (1875). Assyrian...
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    Urmahlullu relief from a bathroom in the palace of Assurbanipal in Ninevah...
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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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    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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    "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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    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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  • Teumman and his son killed in the battle. 647 BC Battle of Susa King Assurbanipal of Assyria takes Susa from Elam, this meaning the end of the Elamites...
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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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  • 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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    Shalmaneser I, Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal. Inscriptions from Assurbanipal record oracular dreams inspired by Ishtar of Erbil. Assurbanipal probably held court...
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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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    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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    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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    "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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    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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    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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    Oriental Institute Publication 11, 1929 Tim Clayden, Bernhard Schneider, "Assurbanipal and the Ziggurat at Nippur" KASKAL 12, pp. 348–382, 2015 V.E. Crawford...
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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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    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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    among others. The Synchronistic Chronicle, found in the library of Assurbanipal in Nineveh records the diplomacy of the Assyrian empire with the Babylonian...
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    Jeremiah 48:7, 49:3; Hosea 10:5; Daniel 11:8 See, for example, History of Assurbanipal, translated from the cuneiform inscriptions by G. Smith, 1871, p. 298...
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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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    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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