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 | | Ashurnasirpal II conquered a dozen petty states, brought much booty home from the wars, with his own hands he cut out they eyeballs of princely captives, and he enoyed his harem. | | | Sargon II, an officer in the army, made himself king in a coup d'etat; he led his troops in person and took in every engagement in the most dangerous post. | | | He defeated Elam and Egypt, reconquered Babylonia, and received the homage of the Jews, Philistines, and Cypriot Greeks. |
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| | There was an Aramaean Eriba-Adad (so-called II), conqueror of Assyria, who nicely matches my reconstructed Ben-Hadad conquest-wise in that this Eriba-Adad II "claims to have ruled Assyria and the Aramaeans, and catalogs conquests far and wide that have been compared with those of Tiglath-pileser I" [2900]. | | | 1620-1590 BC, conventional) - to be folded with Mursilis II - eventually brought an end to the glorious kingdom of Yamkhad, destroying the city of Aleppo [6800], he then went on to take and plunder Babylon, then ruled by Samsuditana, thus effectively bringing to an end the Hammurabic dynasty. | | | EA#17, in which we learn about the assassination of Artaumara, eldest brother of Tushratta, deals with a conflict beyween Tushratta and the regent, Tuhi, and the death of Tuhi at the hand of Tushratta. |
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| | Art 101 Lecture 6 |
| | Ashurnasirpal II Killing Lions, from the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II, Nimrud (Calab), Iraq. | | | Gate of the Citadel of Sargon II, Dur Sharrukin (Khorsabad), Iraq. | | | 1350 - 612 BC Fugitives Crossing River, from the Northwest Palace of Ashurnasirpal II, Nimrud (Calab), Iraq. |
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| | B.N. Porter Vita |
| | "'For the Astonishment of All Enemies': Assyrian Propaganda and Its Audiences in the Reign of Ashurnasirpal II and Esarhaddon," Bulletin of the Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies, 35 (2000), pp. | | | Preparation of article "Intimidation and Friendly Persuasion: Another Look at the Propaganda of Ashurnasirpal II," for a special issue of Eretz Israel. | | | Preparation of article, "Sex, Beds and Politics: The Return of Marduk's Bed to Babylon," for the 47th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Helsinki, July 2001. |
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| | Ashurnasirpal II -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | French Yellow Book, treaties, speeches, surrender documents, congressional hearing reports, and documents from the archives of the German Foreign Office. | | | Extensive collection of primary source documents and links from official sources on World War II. | | | The Institute of World War II and the Human Experience |
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| | Project i4i: Discover Babylon :: The Entertainment Technology Center |
| | 1300-1000 BC), it was Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 BC) who moved the capital of Assyria from Assur to Kalhu (Calah in the Old Testament). | | | Nearly every king after Ashurnasirpal II undertook construction projects at Nimrud, which remained the capital of Assyria for over 150 years until Sargon II (721-705 BC) moved his royal residence to Dur-Sharrukin. | | | Although it had been an administrative center in the Middle Assyrian period (ca. |
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http://www.etc.cmu.edu/projects/i4i/nimrud.html
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| | Nimrud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Nimrud has been identified as the site of the biblical city of Calah or Kalakh [kä'läkh]. | | | Portions of the site have been also been identified as temples to Nunurta and Enlil, a building assigned to Nabu, the god of writing and the arts, and as extensive fortifications. | | | The large number of inscriptions dealing with king Ashurnasirpal II, provide more details about him and his reign than are known for any other ruler of this epoch. |
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| | Bible History Online - Statue of Ashurnasirpal II (Biblical Archaeology) |
| | It has been suggested that the Assyrians used false hair and beards, as the Egyptians sometimes did, but there is no evidence for this. | | | Ashurnasirpal with his long hair and beard holds a sickle in his right hand. | | | This statue of King Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 BC) was placed in the Temple of Ishtar Sharrat-niphi. |
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| | A supportive Egyptian expedition, led or ordered by Necho II (610-595), was quashed at Carchemish. | | | It was in that fragmented and unstable situation in the Near East, that Assyria rose again under Ashur-dan II (ca932-ca912), who appears to have put an end to Aramaean raids from Syria and to have contained Elam in the east. | | | Nabopolassar's son and successor, Nebuchadnezzar II (605-562), the victor at Carchemish, asserted Babylonian authority in the Levant. |
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| | These kings, whose names have been reconstructed thus; Sukhis I, Astuwatamanzas, Sukhis II, and Katuwas, are now believed to have directly preceded Sankara and his family, because none of them are mentioned in the Neo-Assyrian annals. | | | Dynasty scarabs were found at Nimrud (Calah), the city built by Ashurnasirpal II. | | | Describing the cavalry of Ashurnasirpal, believed, we remember, to be five centuries later than those of the Hittites against whom Seti I battled, Gaston Maspero commented: “The army [of Assyria]... |
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| | Ancient Near East – Part II |
| | Ancient Near East – Part II “---The history of ancient Mesopotamia…is a mix of local rivalries, foreign incursions, and the sudden upsurge and collapse of military power…” Janson | | | Plan of Citadel of Sargon II (view 2) | | | 742-706 B.C. Plan of Citadel of Sargon II |
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| | Talaria Enterprises museum store TEACH art history newsletter Mesopotamia: Ancient Assyrian Art |
| | The Gilgamesh Legend is about the adventures of a hero who attempts to gain an understanding of ‘Life’s Purposes.’ Gilgamesh recorded his story on clay tablets. | | | Ashurnasirpal II ruled from 884-859 BC and was one of their most forceful kings. | | | The “Ashurnasipal II” stone sculpture probably survived because it did not have any valuables on it. |
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| | I was dumbstruck at this similarity, and also observed that Quetzal Coatl was wearing what appears to be a "bird-like" head piece as well (Fig.3)! | | | This document is to identify possible linkage between the Meso American cultures of Peru and Mesopotamian cultures. | | | I believe I have discovered similarities between a hieroglyph of Quetzal Coatl (an Aztec god) and wall reliefs from the Temple of Ashurnasirpal II (an Assyrian King). |
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| | For questions, comments, or suggestions about this website, please contact the webmaster. | | | This statue of Ashurnasirpal II sat in Nimrud's Temple of Ishtar as a symbol of the king's devotion to the goddess. | | | In his right hand, he holds the sickle customarily employed to fight monsters. |
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http://www.anselm.edu/academic/history/hdubrulle/WesternCiv1/text/generalinfo/gallery/gallery19.htm
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| | Nineveh - Citadel crenellation - detail w/ view of land beyond | | | Paestum, Temple of Hera II, view through cella from stylobate | | | Paestum, Temple of Hera II, from SW Paestum, Temple of Hera II, pronaos piers and columns |
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| | Ashurnasirpal used the captives from his campaigns to rebuild the city of Calah, which had been founded by Shalmaneser I but was then only a ruin. | | | The details of his reign are known almost entirely from his own inscriptions and the splendid reliefs in the ruins of his palace at Kalhu, biblical Calah (today known as Nimrud, Iraq). | | | The annals of Ashurnasirpal II give a detailed account of the campaigns of his first six years. |
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| | Ashurnasirpal II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Ashurnasirpal succeeded his father, Tukulti-Ninurta II, in 884 BC. | | | Ashurnasirpal II was king of Assyria from 884 BC-859 BC. | | | The Standard Inscription begins by tracing Ashurnasirpal II's lineage back three generations and recounts his military victories, defines the boundaries of his empire, tells how he founded Kalhu, and built the palace. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Assyria |
| | Ashurnasirpal II, the son of Tukulti-Ninurta II, ruled from 884 to 859 bc and extended Assyrian rule to the north and east. | | | Shalmaneser III (reigned 859-824 bc), the son of Ashurnasirpal, conducted 32 campaigns in the 35 years of his reign. | | | In campaign after campaign he devastated with fierce and deliberate cruelty the lands on the borders of his empire but was prudent enough not to attack his more powerful neighbors, Urartu to the north, Babylonia to the south, and Aram to the west. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Ashurnasirpal II |
| | Under his rule the Assyrian borders were extended and the capital was moved from Ashur to the restored city of Calah. | | | Many monuments to Ashurnasirpal II have been unearthed, making him one of the best-known rulers of the ancient Middle East. | | | Ashurnasirpal II Ashurnasirpal II reigned in the 9th century bc and was one of the most influential Assyrian rulers. |
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| | Halabiye and Zalabiye by Carol Miller |
| | Ashurnasirpal II extended Assyrian power farther than his father ever had. | | | Such was the case with the inscriptions ordered by Ashurnasirpal II, installed in Nineveh, Ashur, Balawat and Apqu (Tell Abu Marya), which not only documented construction projects but, in addition, reported the details of fourteen major military campaigns undertaken before 866 B.C., when the records end. | | | Building inscriptions from the first millennium, especially from the neo-Babylonian (Chaldean) and neo-Assyrian periods, were sometimes several hundreds of lines long, and gave lengthy burocratic accounts of the large-scale public works projects of the times. |
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| | History of the Excavation - NWPalace, Nimrud |
| | Henry Layard discovered the Palace of Ashur-nasir-pal II on the citadel of Nimrud (ancient Kalhu) during his sojourn in Mesopotamia between 1847 and 1851. | | | He published his observations in a seminal article in the journal Iraq called "12 Ashurnasirpal Reliefs" in 1965. | | | Meuszynski, Sobolewski, and Paley worked to document each in-situ relief and to re-place in their original positions all the known bas-relief fragments and complete slabs that had been taken from Nimrud over the last century and a half (Meuszynski; Paley and Sobolewski II; Paley and Sobolewski III). |
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| | Iraqi archaeologists dig up ancient temple |
| | He said the courtyard floor was covered by bricks, some of which had texts in cuneiform mentioning Ashurnasirpal II. | | | It was from here that Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 B.C.), and his son Shalmaneser III (858-824 B.C.), who constructed the ziggurate and a neighboring temple, ruled a great empire. | | | Cuneiform writing on the two lions indicated they date back to the reign of the King Ashurnasirpal II, who ruled the Assyrian Empire during the 9th century B.C. The writing also indicated that the building was the temple of Ishtar, ancient Iraqi goddess of love and war. |
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| | Rupert Wace Ancient Art - Near Eastern - Assyrian gypsum relief |
| | Early in his reign he moved his capital from Ashur to a new site on the Tigris, which he enlarged with new temples, palaces and administrative buildings, gardens and canals. | | | This site, Nimrud as it is now known, was the Assyrian city of Kalhu or Calah, as it is referred to in the Bible. | | | At his back his left wing is raised and the right lowered, and beyond him are palmettes from a sacred tree. |
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| | Ashurnasirpal |
| | Stela of Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 B.C.), from Nimrud. | | | The king holds a mace, symbol of authority, in his left hand, and extends the right, with forefinger outstretched as if he has just snapped his fingers, in a gesture of respect and supplication towards the symbols of five gods. | | | The king wears a row of similar symbols on his chest, with a Maltese cross instead of a winged disc for the sun. |
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| | Sargon II (721-705): The Fall of Samaria, pp. | | | Nebuchudnezzar II, king of Babylonia (605-562) burns Jerusalem and destroys the Temple in 587. | | | "Shalmaneser V, king of Assyria (727-722) began the siege of Samaria but the conquest was conpleted under Sargon II (722-705). |
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| | Art Bulletin, The: Gesture and alterity in the art of Ashurnasirpal II of Assyria |
| | A particularly grandiose gesture on the part of this Assyrian king was the removal of the primary center of the Assyrian government from the city of Ashur, where it had rested since Assyria's inception a thousand years earlier as a political and cultural entity. | | | Gesture and alterity in the art of Ashurnasirpal II of Assyria | | | Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net. |
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| | The life and times of Jonah - prophet to the Assyrians |
| | Ashurnasirpal II flanked by protective spirits, see also the translation of his standard inscription. | | | Inscriptions by King Ashur-nâsir-pal II (884 – 859 BC) | | | They deal mostly with his wars and conquests. |
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| | Nimrud (Calah): |
| | Invasions have shown to the king that the ‘city Ashur’, on the right bank of the Tigris, was dangerously exposed to attacks coming from the west. | | | Shalmaneser I, in the thirteenth century B. had found a town there, but it had long fallen into ruins. | | | Ashurnasirpal II, decided early in his reign to build himself a new ‘royal residence’ away from the old capital-city. |
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| | Ashur-Rabi II (1016-973)-Son of Ashurnasirpal I. Ashur-Resh-Ishi II (973-967)-Son of Ashur-Rabi. | | | The Arameans swept back over Assyrian territory and all the Assyrian Kings from Tiglath-Pileser I to Adad-Nirari II had to fight them. | | | In 853 he entered the plains of Syria and was met by a coalition army led by Iruhuleni of Hama and Adad-Idri (Ben-Hadad II) of Damascus. |
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| | Articles - Tukulti-Ninurta II |
| | Articles - Tukulti-Ninurta II Tukulti-Ninurta II was King of Assyria from 891 to 884 BC. | | | He was succeeded by his son, Ashurnasirpal II. | | | He was the son of Adad-nirari II and the second king of the Neo-Assyrian period. |
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| | Bibliography for the Northwest Palace |
| | Paley, S. King of the World: Ashur-nasir-pal II of Assyria, 883-859 B.C. | | | The Reconstruction of the Relief Representations and Their Positions in the Northwest-Palace at Kalhu (Nimrud) II. | | | Reade, J. "Twelve Ashurnasirpal Reliefs," Iraq XXVII/2 (1965). |
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| | NIMRUD, THE WAR AND THE ANTIQUITIES MARKETS* |
| | Richard Sobolewski and I identified one Ashurnasirpal II basrelief, which was seized by Scotland Yard last fall (Fig. | | | After the Second Gulf War, the storeroom of the site museum of Nimrud was ransacked. | | | From 1974 to 1976, that mission re-excavated an area with buildings of Ashurnasirpal II and Shalmaneser III, Ashurnasirpal's son and successor, and the Central Palace, rediscovering many of the bas-relief fragments originally found in the 19th century but left behind. |
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| | Ancient Mesopotamia 3300-331 B.C.E.: Politics, Law, Military History Summary |
| | During the tenth century B.C.E., one of the predecessors of Ashurnasirpal, Ashur-dan II (circa 934-912 B.C.E.), developed the ideology of Assyrian rule, claiming that his imperial conquests were but a resumption of control over territories that rightly belonged to the Assyrian realm. | | | By the end of the seventh century B.C.E., his successors dominated the entire ancient Near East, from Egypt to the land of Urartu in the north to the Persian Gulf in the south. | | | Ashumasirpal II, son of Tukulti-Ninurta II (890- 884 B.C.E.), was the founder of a revitalized and expanded Neo- Assyrian Empire. |
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| | Norwich Free Academy Slater Museum Cast Collection |
| | Alabaster stele found in the ruins of Nimrud. | | | Ashurnasirpal built many palaces adorned with numerous sculptural reliefs and these, since their discovery in 1846 A.D., have proven to be of great value in studying Assyrian culture. | | | The winged gods hold buckets and flowers to pollinate the tree, symbolizing fertility not only for the palm, but for the king as well. |
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| | Colossal statue of a winged human-headed bull from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II (Room S) |
| | This is one of a pair of guardian figures set up in the palace of Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 BC) at the Assyrian capital Kalhu. | | | The figure has five legs, so that when viewed from the front it stands firm, while when viewed from the side it appears to be striding forward to combat evil. | | | The 'Standard Inscription' of Ashurnasirpal, common to many of his reliefs, is inscribed between the figure's legs. |
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| | Banquet of Ashurnasirpal |
| | The feast was held to commemorate the inauguration of his new palace in the capital city of Calah. | | | THE BANQUET OF ASHURNASIRPAL II The following account comes from the Royal Archives of Assyria and dates from the seventh century BCE. | | | The speaker is the Emperor Ashurnasirpal (883-859 BCE) displaying his royal power. |
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| | The life and times of Jonah - prophet to the Assyrians |
| | Standard Inscription of King Ashur-nâsir-pal II The Assyrian kings (and probably most kings in general) were rather full of themselves and very boastful, and you see this well illustrated here. | | | In Jonah's case, the Assyrian king and his citizens humbled themselves and repented, so God had mercy and spared them. | | | This pride of the Assyrians God certainly found objectionable (see Isaiah 10:1-19, especially verse 12 onwards). |
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| | Calah: Definition and Much More From Answers.com |
| | Also discovered were the palaces of Ashurnasirpal II, Shalmaneser III, and Tiglathpileser III. | | | Known as Calah in the Bible, it is the same as the ancient Nimrud, named after a legendary Assyrian hunting hero. | | | Calah continued to be a royal residence even after Nineveh became the political capital. |
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| | context, within the Northwest Palace of Ashurnasirpal II in present-day Iraq. | | | Celebrating 75 Years - Stones of Assyria: Ancient Spirits from the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II On view through December 2002 | | | This exhibition was organized by Elyse Gonzales, Special Projects Assistant, with Vivian Patterson, Curator of Collections, and Barbara Robertson, Director of Education. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Ashurnasirpal II |
| | Search for books about your topic, "Ashurnasirpal II" | | | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Ashurnasirpal II MSN Home | | | How well did we match your search term? |
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| | OBJECT OIM_A34979 |
| | Room G in Ashurnasirpal II's palace may have served as the setting for a ritual by which weapons were purified. | | | KING ASHURNASIRPAL II Iraq: Nimrud, N.W. Palace, Room G Neo-Assyrian Period Reign of Ashurnasirpal II, ca. |
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| | Ashurnasirpal II |
| | English version: Ashurnasirpal II Next: Matthew Lyon Up | | | Ashurnasirpal II Ashurnasirpal II era rey de Assyria a partir de 883 Bc-859 A.C.. |
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