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Assurbanipal

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Assurbanipal 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, he drove Taharka out of Egypt and firmly established Necho in power there only to have Necho's son Psamtik revolt in 660 BC and wrest Egypt permanently from Assyria. The uprising took place during a campaign by Assurbanipal against the Elamites and Chaldaeans. His brother, in command at Babylon, also headed a serious revolt by the enemies of the king. This insurgence was suppressed, though not without difficulty, and in reta... Read more

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...killed (663 BC), by the Nubian Tanutamon, Psamtik fled to his overlord, Assurbanipal , who reinstated (661) him at Saïs as viceroy of Lower Egypt. While Assurbanipal was busy in Babylonia and other regions, Psamtik shook off his Assyrian... Read more

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	A 8003: A FRAGMENT OF ASSURBANIPAL PRISM G1 ; ...the historical prism inscriptions of Assurbanipal, A. C. Piepkorn classified A 8003...identify A 8003 for his editions of Assurbanipal's prism inscriptions since the fragment...8003 as belonging to that edition of Assurbanipal's res gestae.9 This proposal was confirmed... Read more
	Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, part II: Assurbanipal through Sin-sharru-ishkun.(Book Review) ; Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, part II: Assurbanipal through Sin-sharru-ishkun. By RAIJA MATTILA. State Archives of Assyria, vol. 14. Helsinki: HELSINKI UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2002. Pp... Read more
	Te[CHARACTERS NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]umman in the Neo-Assyrian Correspondence. ; ...activities in the annals of Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal. The Neo-Elamite king Te[CHARACTERS...IN ASCII]umman is a major focus of Assurbanipal's annals, which portray him as an inveterate...throne and his defeat and death during Assurbanipal's second Elamite campaign (653 B.C... Read more
	(book review) ; ...Priests to the Kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal. By STEVEN W. COLE and PETER MACHINIST...of the Assyrian kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal (Ca. 680-650 B.C.). Many letters are...Babylon (whose temples Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal were in the process of repairing and... Read more
	Strange and moving `Suitors' tells Iranian immigrants' tale ; Mariyam Pouran Ali Ali Azizian Reza Shahab Navab Haji Assurbanipal Babila First Run Features presents a film written...Arriving in America, Mariyam, who married the older Haji (Assurbanipal Babila) only to get here, is prepared for a life of... Read more
	Goodwin, Willard. Hugh Kenner: a Bibliography.(Book Review) ; ...2001. 477 pp. $49.95. An accumulated mass of anything begs, eventually, the enumeration of its particulars. The library of Assurbanipal in Nineveh kept lists of the clay tablets it housed, just as Alexandria's librarians had their holdings catalogued by subject... Read more
	Not wisely ; ...park and put him back in the dark hole where he belongs," cries the onstage Dramaturg about a quarter of the way through Assurbanipal Babilla's adaptation of Othello. If anyone could perform this rescue mission, it's certainly Babilla, whose ribald and irreverent... Read more
	Herrschaftswissen in Mesopotamien: Formen der Kommunikation zwischen Gott and Konig im 2. und 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr.(Book Review) ; ...during the reigns of Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal were these oracles part of royal self-presentati...The royal inscriptions of his son Assurbanipal use dreams as a compositional element...during the reigns of Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal, with all the information available... Read more
	"Sonne der Gerechtigkeit": Studien zur Solarisierung der Jahweh-Religion im Lichte von Psalm 72.(Book Review) ; ...Esarhaddon, and a coronation hymn for Assurbanipal. Indeed, it is the similarity of what...appropriation of the coronation hymn of Assurbanipal, while subversively undercutting it...congruencies between the coronation hymn of Assurbanipal and the basic layer of Psalm 72, including... Read more
	Basement tapes ; ...by the tale of a madman: Something Something Uber Alles (Emerging Collector), the diabolically intelligent one-man show by Assurbanipal Babilla. It's the story of a Hitler look-alike who tells of being orgiastically worshiped by a Fuhrer cult in subterranean... Read more

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