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Dur Sharrukin

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Dur Sharrukin see Khorsabad . Author not available, DUR SHARRUKIN., The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2008... Read more
Khorsabad
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Khorsabad , village, NE Iraq, near the Tigris River and 12 mi (20 km) NE of Mosul. It is built on the site of Dur Sharrukin, an Assyrian city (founded 8th cent. BC by Sargon), which covered 1 sq mi (2.6 sq km). Its mounds were excavated by ... Read more
Nineveh
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ... which seems to have been replaced by Nineveh. Nineveh was thereafter generally the capital, although Sargon built Dur Sharrukin (Khorsabad) as his capital. Nineveh reached its full glory under Sennacherib and Assurbanipal . It continued to be ... Read more

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New Mesopotamian Gallery at the Oriental Institute
Near Eastern Archaeology; 3/1/2004; Anonymous; 787 words ; ... or human-headed winged bull from Khorsabad, ancient Dur Sharrukin. The bull, which stands sixteen feet tall, now is flanked ... 1928-1929 season of excavations at Sargon II's capital city Dur-Sharrukin. This stunning new installation evokes the grandeur ... Read more
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The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 7/1/1999; CHAVALAS, MARK W.; 787 words ; ... 1966]). Van De Mieroop argues that only a handful of Mesopotamian kings are known to have founded new cities, that Dur-Sharrukin was the only city in pre-Greek Mesopotamia truly founded on virgin soil, and that Mesopotamian kings were reluctant ... Read more

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