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books on: Ashurbanipal  - 262 results

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1.
Who's Who in the Ancient Near East
Book by Gwendolyn Leick; Routledge, 1999
Subjects: Middle East--History--To 622--Biography--Dictionaries
...exorcist asipu under ESARHADDON and ASHURBANIPAL. He was the author of many letters...that she was born in the 20th year of ASHURBANIPAL 649 and that she had influence at...during the reigns of ESARHADDON and ASHURBANIPAL. Thirty-five letters of his, concerning...
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The Ancient History of the Near East: From the Earliest Times to the Battle of Salamis
Book by H. R. Hall; Methuen, 1913
Subjects: Civilization, Ancient, History, Ancient
...2. The Dying Lioness: Palace of Ashurbanipal British Museum 514...and to the official scribes of King Ashurbanipal of Assyria seventh...Adad-nirari II 9II- 890 B.C. to that of Ashurbanipal 6 69)- 625 B.C. , some of which...
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Everyday Life in Babylon and Assyria
Book by Georges Contenau; St. Martins Press, 1954
Subjects: Assyria--Social Life And Customs, Babylonia--Social Life And Customs
...The Library of Ashurbanipal , 188...9 X Ashurbanipal in his chariot receiving the surrender...XI Banquet of Ashurbanipal and his queen 126...
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The Legacy of Mesopotamia
Book by Stephanie Dalley, A. T. Reyes, David Pingree, Alison Salvesen, Henrietta McCall; Oxford University Press, 1998
Subjects: Greece--Civilization--Middle Eastern Influences, Iraq--Civilization, Middle East--Civilization
...Nineveh as shown on a sculpture of Ashurbanipal. A. SMD, after R. 48...a scroll, shown on a sculpture of Ashurbanipal, mid-seventh century BC. SMD, after...conquest Gyges of Lydia Manasseh Ashurbanipal Fall of Nineveh 600 Nebuchadnezzar...
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The Early History of Syria and Palestine
Book by Lewis Bayles Paton; Charles Scribners Sons, 1901
Subjects: Palestine--History, Syria--History
...681 Esarhaddon Esarhaddon Esarhaddon Khumbakhal dash II. 668 Ashurbanipal Shamashshumukin Ashurbanipal Urtaki 647 Ashurbanipal XXVI. Psam metik I. Teumman 625 Ashuretililani Sinshariskun XI...
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journal articles on: Ashurbanipal  - 15 results

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Neo-Assyrian Royal Women and Male Identity: Status as a Social Tool
Journal article by Sarah C. Melville; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 124, 2004
...as appears on the banquet relief of Ashurbanipal. (25) The remains of other females...Libali-sarrat, the wife of the crown prince, Ashurbanipal. (31) Serua-etirat not only outranked...she is listed after the crown princes Ashurbanipal and Samas-sum-ukin, but before the...
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Ein Vergoldeter Silberbecher der Zeit Assurbanipals Im Miho Museum: Historische Darstellungen Des 7. Jahrhunderts V. Chr
Journal article by Pauline Albenda; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 121, 2001
Subjects: Art, Ancient--Analysis
...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 Egyptian Eastern Border Region in Assyrian Sources
Journal article by Herbert Verreth; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 119, 1999
Subjects: Assyria--History, Egypt--History, Geography, Ancient--Egypt
...Assyrian Royal Inscriptions: The Case of Ashurbanipals Egyptian Campaigns. In Assyrian Royal...1980. The Chronology of the Reign of Ashurbanipal. Zeitschrift fur Assyriologie 70: 227-45...704-669 B.C.); 668-635 B.C.: The Reign of Ashurbanipal. In The Cambridge Ancient History...
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The "Queen of the Night" Plaque-A Revisit
Journal article by Pauline Albenda; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 125, 2005
Subjects: Art objects--History, Babylonian Empire, ca. 1894-1595 BC--Social aspects, British Museum--Collections and collecting, Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian--Social aspects, Hammurabi, King of Babylonia--Social aspects, Plaques (Signs)--History, Plaques, plaquettes--History
...seventh-century B.C. bas-reliefs of Ashurbanipal. (33) These lion-headed male figures...Sculptures from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh (668-627 B.C.). London...that rests upon the ground, and of Ashurbanipal gripping the bow and arrows upright...
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The Early Neo-Babylonian Governor's Archive from Nippur
Journal article by M. Mandamayev; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 118, 1998
Subjects: Books--Reviews
...Assyrian coalitions. Eventually in 651 the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal took direct control of the city, and it remained loyal to...important economic center in Babylonia. The statement that Ashurbanipal showed "a benevolent face to the city and its people" allowing...
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magazine articles on: Ashurbanipal  - 8 results

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Libraries in the Ancient World
Magazine article by Amy Achwartz; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 25, Summer 2001
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Libraries in the Ancient World (Book)--Reviews
...pp. $22.95 The royal librarian to Ashurbanipal, the monarch who ruled Assyria from...his name, his seed, in the land." Ashurbanipal maintained a library because he could...clear. Near Eastern libraries such as Ashurbanipals were the first to assign titles to...
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Zoos of the Past Lead to the Zoos of Today
Magazine article by Timothy D. Morton; PSA Journal, Vol. 67, February 2001
Subjects: Photography of animals--Technique, Zoos--Analysis
...an Imperial Zoo, called "The Garden of Intelligence" was created. From 1000 to 400 BC, the royal keepers of Senurabus and Ashurbanipal of Assyria and King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia maintained zoos, and a major collection for scientific study was developed...
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Delete, Baby, Delete: We're Not Quite as Good at Destruction as We Think We Are
Magazine article by Cullen Murphy; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 289, May 2002
Subjects: Confidential communications, Fires
...the seventh century B.C. by an invading force of Babylonians, Scythians, and Medes. The conquerors put the great library of Ashurbanipal to the torch. Because the librarys contents were written on clay tablets, the consequence was to fire the archives, as if...
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One with Nineveh and Tyre
Magazine article by James Gardner; National Review, Vol. 43, May 13, 1991
Subjects: Art, Middle Eastern--Public opinion, Hussein, Saddam--Social policy, Iraq--Social policy
...brought about the friezes for the palaces at Nineveh and Nimrud. In a depiction of the battle of Til-Tuba, the armies of Ashurbanipal are seen driving the Elamites into a river. The carcasses of hundreds of horses and men, riddled with spears and arrows...
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Cultural Connections: Bowl with Frieze of Lion ..
Magazine article; School Arts, Vol. 103, March 2004
...or palace of the Neo-Assyrian period and dates to the late seventh to eighth century BC, between the reigns of Sargon and Ashurbanipal. Because the bowl was found in Iran, it is thought that it had been carried as booty from an Assyrian palace to one of the...
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newspaper articles on: Ashurbanipal  - 2 results

 
 
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The Human Need to Know Origins of Nearly Everything
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), October 25, 2006
...Portrait Books this month, covers everything from dictionaries (the first produced on terracotta tablets for Assyrian king Ashurbanipal in the 7th century BC) to swimming pools (the first built in England in 1862). It refrains from tackling anything so big...
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From the Depths Back to the Top ... Chef Reclaims His Crown
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), January 23, 2007
Subjects: Restaurants
...ancient Mesopotamian hero, whose adventures are recounted in carvings on 12 tablets found in the library of the Assyrian king, Ashurbanipal, who ruled from 669 to 626BC. Philip Roth also named a character Gil Gamesh in The Great American Novel of 1973. Other winners...


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encyclopedia articles on: Ashurbanipal  - 3 results

 
 
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Ashurbanipal
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ASHURBANIPAL see Assurbanipal . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Assurbanipal
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ASSURBANIPAL a soorba nepal or Ashurbanipal a shoor , d. 626? b.c., king of ancient Assyria (669 633 b.c.), son and successor of Esar-Haddon . The last of the great kings...
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Gilgamesh
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...tablets c.2000 b.c. and discovered among the ruins at Nineveh. The epic was lost when the the library of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal was destroyed in 612 b.c. The librarys remains were excavated by British archaeologists in the mid-19th cent., the tablets...


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