Ashurbanipal
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
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The British Museum is to collaborate with Iraq. (News).(to restore Assyrian King Ashurbanipal's palace library)(Brief Article)
History Today; 7/1/2002; 109 words
; The British Museum is to collaborate with Iraq on a project to bring the library of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal (669-631BC) at his magnificent palace in Nineveh, now Iraq, back to life. The Museum has some 25,000 clay tablets in its collection ...
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Visual formula and meaning in Neo-Assyrian relief sculpture.
The Art Bulletin; 3/1/2006; Atac, Mehmet-Ali; 26535 words
; ... FIGURE 45 OMITTED] The mythological semantic of the lion hunts of Ashurbanipal has already been emphasized by Chikako Watanabe and Elnathan Weissert ... the mainstream pantheon of Mesopotamian religion. The lion hunts of Ashurbanipal therefore can be thought of as the most hieratic component of the ... of visual ...
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The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 7/1/1994; Dandamayev, M.A.; 1174 words
; ... as well as on the identification of Ashurbanipal as Kandalanu. Frame makes use of published ... under the overlordship of his brother Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria. In effect, Babylonia ... beginning of the decline of Assyria. Ashurbanipal installed Kandalanu as vassal king ...
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Ein vergoldeter Silberbecher der Zeit Assurbanipals im Miho Museum: Historische Darstellungen des 7. Jahrhunderts v. Chr.(Brief Article)
The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 1/1/2001; ALBENDA, PAULINE; 988 words
; ... inscription that mentions the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal (668-627 B.c.). On the inner rim is ... wall reliefs from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh, conveniently published ... correspond to a later phase in the reign of Ashurbanipal, and that the inclusion of Elamite ...
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The rise and fall of Media.(Ancient Near East)
International Journal of Kurdish Studies; 1/1/2002; Medvedskaya, I.N.; 6240 words
; ... the lists of Assyrian provinces under Ashurbanipal [Forrer, 1921, p. 52-54; K.4384, K ... Forrer's dating them to the reign of Ashurbanipal and his belief that they were the lists ... course of the rebellion. In 669 B.C. Ashurbanipal inherited the throne of Assyria; Manna ...
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Art of Glass
The Washington Post; 6/21/2002; 192 words
; ... glassmaking was Assyria, where the instructions on how to make glass are contained in tablets from the library of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal (669-626 B.C.). This knowledge was handed down, from father to son, from family to family, over the centuries. Four hundred ...
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The East-West tale of a once and future king BOOKS & IDEAS
International Herald Tribune; 3/24/2007; Jonathan Rosen; 1234 words
; ... telling that story, too. One of the last Assyrian kings, Ashurbanipal, had the literary skills and interests of a scribe. To ... The Epic of Gilgamesh,'' a story already ancient in Ashurbanipal's time. When Nineveh fell in 612 B.C., the library, loaded ... with eternal life. This relative gives Gilgamesh the bad ...
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Esarhaddon, Egypt, and Shubria: Politics and Propaganda
Journal of Cuneiform Studies; 1/1/2005; Ephcal, Israel; 5398 words
; ... rule in Egypt was extended only under Ashurbanipal, who wrested Thebes from Taharqa and ... Administration of oath of loyalty to Ashurbanipal and Shamash-shumaukin as the future ... the inscriptions of Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal for the content of this tablet. Monuments ...
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Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, part II: Assurbanipal through Sin-sharru-ishkun.(Book Review)
The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 4/1/2004; Melville, Sarah C.; 1226 words
; ... includes, in addition to the remainder of texts assigned to Ashurbanipal's reign, all of the texts dated by post-canonical eponyms ... which begins during Esarhaddon's reign and continues into Ashurbanipal's, was included in part I in order to make the length of ...
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In search of Gilgamesh, the epic hero of ancient Babylonia.
The Washington Post; 3/4/2007; Michael Dirda; 1500 words
; ... to the excavation of the library of Ashurbanipal, an Assyrian king of the 7th century ... Sargon II, Sennacherib, Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal himself. Damrosch neatly conveys the ... that the poem "was already ancient in Ashurbanipal's day, copied and recopied for more ...
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Ashurbanipal
Encyclopedia of World Biography
Ashurbanipal Ashurbanipal (died ca. 630 B.C.) was the last great king of the Assyrian Empire ... scholar, and a patron of art and learning. The events of the reign of Ashurbanipal are imperfectly known, and the course of his campaigns cannot be ...
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Assurbanipal
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
or Ashurbanipal , d. 626? BC, king of ancient Assyria (669-633 BC), son and successor of Esar-Haddon . The last of the great kings of Assyria ...
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Gilgamesh
Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
... and collated in the palace of Ashurbanipal, King of the World, King of Assyria." Gilgamesh was reckoned by Ashurbanipal as an ancestor — good reason ... written on twelve clay tablets in Ashurbanipal's library at Nineveh and recovered ...
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