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 Semiramide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He is called back to Babylon, is in love with Azema and unwilling to support Assur in the latter's bid for the throne.
Semiramide, with Assur, has secured the murder of her husband, King Nino.
Arsace, in the tomb of his father, meets King Nino's murderers, and seeking to strike Assur, kills Semiramide.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiramide   (435 words)

  
 LIBRARY
Many brick inscriptions of his from Assur have been excavated.
A vigorous campaign followed in which Shalmaneser tried to make good the Assyrian claim to the country.
On the lower sea of the rising sun I established the frontier of my land.
http://intranet.dalton.org/ms/6th/archaeotype_library/royal.html   (7910 words)

  
 Rise of Assyria
After his death, the Assyrians, who were still nominally the vassals of Babylonia, threw off all disguise, and Shalmaneser I (1300 BC), the greatgreat-grandson of Assur-yuballidh, openly claimed the supremacy in western Asia.
He seems to have been slain fighting against the Babylonians, who were still under the rule of Hadad-nadin-akhi, and a new dynasty was established at Assur by in-aristi-pileser, who claimed to be a descendant of the ancient prince Erba-Raman.
Campaign after campaign was carried on against the Hittites and the wild tribes of the north-west, and Assyrian colonists were settled in Cappadocia.
http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/lookup/encyclopedia/ri/Rise_of_Assyria.html   (689 words)

  
 Assur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Old Assyrian kingdom came to end when Hammurabi of Babylon incorporated the city into his kingdom after the death of Shamshi-Adad.
Die versunkene Weltstadt und ihr Ausgräber Robert Koldewey.
Assur became the capital of an Assyrian kingdom during the rule of Shamshi-Adad I (1813-1781 BC).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assur   (785 words)

  
 Black Obelisk
The people of Hattina were afraid before the terror of my mighty weapons; they seized the sons of Surri, together with the "sinners," and gave them to me. I impaled these (rebels) on stakes.
Ahuni, together with his gods, his chariots, his horses, his sons, his daughters, his troops, I carried off and brought to my city, Assur.
He made Shitamrat, a mount peak, which is on the bank of the Euphrates, his stronghold.
http://www.kchanson.com/ANCDOCS/meso/obelisk.html   (2320 words)

  
 Ruins of an ancient trading center soon to be under water csmonitor.com
Efforts to provide that help are complicated by UN sanctions against Iraq, US and British restrictions on travel to Iraq, and uncertainty over what the United States might do, given President Bush's threats against Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's regime.
Although German archaeologists began working at Assur during the early 1900s, their work was interrupted by two world wars.
The ancient city of Assur, once the seat of a mighty empire and now an archaeological window into a key period in the history of human civilization, is on the verge of falling victim to a dam.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0404/p16s02-stss.htm   (887 words)

  
 J Alphabet J
Assur's people moved up out of the Mediterranean Valley ahead of rising waters.
Assur's beard is one of his parts that Isis gathered for his resurrection.
It is unlikely that a hermetic community of Isis-sons practiced Judaism.
http://www.resurrectisis.org/J1WebPage.htm   (1128 words)

  
 Iraqi Dam Will Obliterate Ancient Assyrian Capital
Last month senior Iraqi government antiquities official Muayad Damerji told The Art Newspaper that he personally believes that the solution is to "build a concrete wall around Assur." He admits it would be "very expensive", but points out that "we need water and we need Assur."
LONDON -- The Iraqi government is building a dam which will destroy the ancient city of Assur, the former capital which gave its name to Assyria.
Assur (or Ashur) became the capital of Assyria by 2000 BC and it remained the religious centre of the empire until its capture by the Babylonians in 614 BC.
http://www.aina.org/news/20050701151514.htm   (919 words)

  
 Assyrians - History for Kids!
But when the Hurrian kingdom collapsed about 1360 BC, the Assyrian governor of Assur, whose name was Assur-uballit, saw his chance and began calling himself the King of Assyria.
By 1700 BC the Assyrians had been conquered by the Amorites, and later they were controlled by the Hurrians for a long time.
But people objected to this sacrilege, and the conquest of Babylon, and a mob led by his son burned Tukulti-Ninurta to death by setting fire to his palace, and freed the Kassites again.
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/westasia/history/assyrians.htm   (603 words)

  
 Presidential Lectures: Stefan Maul: Tracing Assyrian Scholarship
Even if the attempt to maintain order in the world through magic and ritual remains alien to the modern reader, one should not underestimate the psychological effect of conjurers' rituals.
Financially supported by Kaiser Wilhelm II, who himself studied cuneiform, the society sent an expedition to the Tigris in 1903 to excavate the city of Assur, the capital of ancient Assyria.
The answers to these questions formed the basis of a new form of the Assyrian cult of the state, which Assurbanipal had commissioned the conjurers in Assur to work out.
http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/maul/tracing.html   (2894 words)

  
 Swords Across the Void
Soft arms went about his neck, and muffled sobbing came to his ears through the dark veil of Lunala’s hair.
Assur landed on his back, pulling Kav down with him, and at the same time straightened the leg upon his stomach, hurling the savage over his head and to his death.
Assur could feel his feet slipping under the relentless force of his adversary’s powerful muscles.
http://www.pulpanddagger.com/pulpmag/wiz/void7.html   (1477 words)

  
 Jerusalem Post: Cabbie Khaled Assur indicted for murder in Tisha Be'av bombing@ HighBeam Research
The prosecution claims that the accused knew of the terrorists' intentions yet did nothing to stop them or inform the police.
Cabbie Khaled Assur indicted for murder in Tisha Be'av bombing
Friday, August 9, 2002 -- Khaled Assur, 41, a taxi driver from Jaffa, was charged yesterday in Tel Aviv District Court with the murder of five people and the wounding of 38 others when he allegedly drove two suicide bombers to their target on Tisha Be'av Eve.
http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:55161383&refid=holomed_1   (232 words)

  
 Yale > Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations > About the Faculty
Fall 2001: Epigrapher of the German archaeological mission at Assur (Qal'at Sherqat), Iraq.
Full edition of the economic and administrative texts found during the excavations in Assur, Iraq, in 2001.
Maul, on the pantheon, cultic topography, and cultic calendar of Assur (realized within the Leibniz Program of the German Research Council).
http://www.yale.edu/nelc/efrahm_cv.html   (2792 words)

  
 ASSUR (COUNTRY) - LoveToKnow Article on ASSUR (COUNTRY)
The nples were in the northern part of the city, together with 111 lofty towers, one of which has been excavated.
She TI o, like Assur, was viewed as a war deity, and to such an Ar tent was this the case that at times it would appear that hi e, rather than Assur, presided over the fortunes of the Assyrian ta mies.
He had been publicly nominated king of Assyria T n the 12th of Iyyar) by his father Esar-haddon, some time cr !fore the latters death, Babylonia being assigned to his twin- cc other Samas-sum-yukin, in the hope of gratifying the national th eling of the Babylonians.
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/A/AS/ASSUR_COUNTRY_.htm   (2407 words)

  
 Assur
This indicates that the people of Assur were probably emigrants from Sumeria.
Excavations at Qalat Sharqat began in 1847 and were conducted by a British archaeologist named Austen Layard.
Assur is an Iron Age site on the upper Tigris River in Iraq.
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/archaeology/sites/middle_east/assur.html   (551 words)

  
 X Alphabet X
In his case it was a superfluous ornament.
Assur was the god of resurrection for three thousand years before Jesus was born.
The Egyptian belief in an afterlife, their mummification of the dead, hieroglyphic writing, the construction of the pyramids, all that we recognize as "Egyptian" sprung from the resurrection of Assur.
http://www.resurrectisis.org/X1WebPage.htm   (1098 words)

  
 Assur (Ashur), Iraq
Assur which was fortified by inner and outer walls, with several gateways, contained a large number of important religious buildings, about 34 temples, and 3 palaces as 7th century BC documents revealed.
There are also temples devoted to the gods of the sun and the moon, and one with two towers sacred to Anu, god of the sky, and Adad, god of storms.
Thus, it was the religious capital of Assyria at large periods of Assyrian history, and the center for worship of the god Ashur and the goddess
http://www.atlastours.net/iraq/assur.html   (380 words)

  
 Assur
Originally the titular deity of an ancient Assyrian city of learning on the Tigris, but with the rise of the Assyrian Empire his prominence was extended so that he became one of the foremost gods of the Assyrian pantheon.
Assur is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
The ideaographic representation of the word Marduk is equivalent to "child of the sun," significantly stressing his solar characteristics, while that of his consort Zarpanitu (or Sarpanit) is equivalent to "the shining one." Marduk is also identified with the planet Jupiter.
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 ASSUR - Online Information article about ASSUR
Apart from this concession, it is Assur who pre-eminently presides over the fortunes of Assyria.' In his name, and with his approval as indicated by favourable omens, the Assyrian armies See also:
She too, like Assur, was viewed as a war deity, and to such an extent was this the See also:
rule of Assur also comes to an end, whereas it is significant that the cult of the gods of Babylonia—more particularly of Marduksurvives for several centuries the loss of political independence through See also:
http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/ARN_AUD/ASSUR.html   (2239 words)

  
 G Alphabet G
They built temples at the alleged burial sites of his various parts.
The resurrection of Assur was the foundation of Pagan religion in the same sense that the resurrection of Jesus is the foundation of the Christian religion.
Egyptian religion, and Christian religion as well, began with Isis and the resurrection of Assur.
http://www.resurrectisis.org/G1WebPage.htm   (734 words)

  
 Assur -
Assur was conquered by the Babylonians in 614 B.C. Today the archaeological survey is directed by a German expedition.
The city of Asshur (or Assur or Ashur) on the Tigris was originally a colony of Babylonia, and later became the first capital city of Assyria, to which it gave its name.
After all, Assur kept being the religious capital of Assyria, with its temples of Ishtar and Assur.
http://www.grohol.com/psypsych/Assur   (198 words)

  
 Outline of Assyrian history
Mesopotamia: Iraq, the 'land of the two rivers', the Euphrates and the Tigris.
These cities are situated in the north of Iraq, near Mosul.
ASSUR-UBALLIT II (612-609), the last Neo-Assyrian king, who ruled for some years in Harran in Syria after the destruction of Assur and Niniveh.
http://home-3.tiscali.nl/~meester7/engassyrian2.html   (1621 words)

  
 Assur travel guide
Assur is an old city in northern Iraq.
Orginally Assur was the name of the Assyrian God Assur or Ashur, the same name became to be the name of the Assyrians and their God.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
http://www.world66.com/asia/middleeast/iraq/assur   (103 words)

  
 Ancient Near East .net - Berlin Events
The prominence of Assur is indicated by its being not only the name of the city and the country, but also of the highest god of the empire.
"Wiedererstehendes Assur" - 100 Jahre deutsche Ausgrabungen in Assyrien / "Assyria Risen Again" - 100 Years of German Excavations in Assyria (Iraq)
Between 1903 and 1914, the results of the research of the German excavation team, headed by the architect Walter Andrae, brought to the surface a completely new image of Assyria.
http://www.ancientneareast.net/events/events_berlin.html   (582 words)

  
 Annals of Assur-Nasir-Pal
[3.46] I carried off and took to my city of Assur: Khimtiel of Laqai I made prisoner in his own city.
[1.12] thy great deity is founded, and thou makest righteous his life, valiant, warrior, who in the service of Assur his Lord hath proceeded, and among the Kings
While in the land of Zamue I was stationed the cities Khudunai, Khartisai, Khutiskai Kirzanai
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/txt/ah/Assyria/Inscra02.html   (10747 words)

  
 Humbul Record : Assur
Assur, the eponymous capital of the Assyrian empire, was first occupied in the 3rd millennium BC and was subject to the Akkadian and Neo-Sumerian empires until the 19th century BC when it emerged as a major political power in its own right during the Old Assyrian Period.
An useful illustrated guide to the history and archaeology of the important archaeological site of Assur in northern Iraq providing a brief account of the city's long history and of the various excavations at the site together with short preliminary reports of recent German and Iraqi work here in 2000 and 2001.
Excavations began in 1821 and have continued to this day, involving many of the eminent figures of Assyriology such as Claudius Rich, Henry Layard, Hormuzd Rassan and Robert Koldewey.
http://www.humbul.ac.uk/output/full3.php?id=6447   (276 words)

  
 Deweer nv / Assur Carpets manufacturer of carpets
For more than decades, Assur Carpets has been able to maintain its family structure, which has now added up to three generations of activity!
In order to guarantee this quality, Assur Carpets has been investing for more than years in RandD (research and development) and extensive tests.
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Hand of Kandalanu, the scribe of the temple which is in Arbela.
At the end of col. iv there is a blank space roughly equivalent to 8 lines, followed by a break which may have included a subscription of no more than 3 or 4 lines.
Month of Lulubu, 20th day, eponymy of Adad-bel-ukin, the governor of Assur.
http://web.tiscali.it/deodorico/mesopot/histor/akl.html   (174 words)

  
 Assur - definition of Assur by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
Assur - an ancient Assyrian city on the Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria; just south of the modern city of Mosul in Iraq
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
Assur - definition of Assur by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Assur   (162 words)

  
 MuscarellaO_11_4
In two recent publications of material from tombs excavated at two Near Eastern sites, Marlik Tepe in NW Iran and Assur in Assyria, the occurrence of fibulae among the grave goods and the concomitant chronological conclusions to be obtained from their prosence have been either ignored or distorted.
In this paper it is argued that a correct analysis of the chronology of the advent of fibulae in the Newr East leads to significant results, results other than those perceived by the scholars responsible for the publications.
Last modified: Tue Nov 7 14:45:11 EST 2000
http://www.bu.edu/jfa/Abstracts/M/MuscarellaO_11_4.html   (94 words)

  
 Humbul Record : Assur. Ausgrabungen in Assur 2000 und 2001
The archaeological site of Assur on the Tigris River in northern Iraq was the centre of the powerful kingdom of Assyria from the 19th century BC until the early 1st millennium BC and has been examined by archaeologists since the middle of the 19th century.
This web site, part of the homepage of Assyriologist Dr Peter Miglus of the University of Halle, provides a brief illustrated guide to the resumed German excavations in 2000 and 2001 sponsored by the Martin Luther Universität, Halle-Wittenberg, the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, and the Deutsche Orient-Gesselschaft.
http://www.humbul.ac.uk/output/full3.php?id=6445   (243 words)

  
 Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser II
Their spoil, their plunder to Assyria I brought.
[134] of Assur my Lord overwhelmed him and (when) he had come out my feet he took.
(As for) the rest of the country of Par'sua which did not reverence Assur, its cities
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/txt/ah/Assyria/Inscra01.html   (2669 words)

  
 Assur
Another Assur, or Ashur, "father of Thecua", is mentioned in I Paral., ii, 24, and iv, 5.
In verse 11 of the same chapter, the Douay version has: "Out of that land came forth Assur".
he (Nimrod) went forth into the Assyria (Assur)" is preferable.
http://www.catholicity.com/encyclopedia/a/assur2.html   (263 words)

  
 The Assyrian Connections
The textual emphasis is said to be more directed toward the kings character as a high priest rather than on his kingship and successes as a military commander but not without a touch of arrogance.
Two of these tombs were found in the 1980's.
Above the Sumerian stratum comes a stratum (F) belonging to the period of the foundation of the great temple, and of the Kings Auspia (Auswa) and Kikia, whose names, however, are more probably Gutian than Mitannian." See A.H. Sayce, `Who were the Ammorites', Sep 1924, p.
http://www.specialtyinterests.net/assyria.html   (6226 words)

  
 Business Wire: Carmina Signs Initial Contract Tackling West Ni... @ HighBeam Research
By gathering data digitally at the point of inspection, information can be accessed readily on centralized servers from any location in the world that has Internet Access, making available real-time reporting and analytics.
Assur-H&S is the third product in the Assur family launched by Carmina since the beginning of 2003.
The Assur family of products brings an easy-to-use, established technology to industries and processes that still rely largely on manual data collection and management.
http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:101778174&refid=holomed_1   (852 words)

  
 Assur / Aššur - Ancient Near East.net
National god and chief deity of the Assyrian pantheon, Aššur (also written Assur and Ashur) probably originated as the local deity and personification of the city of the same name (precise details of the deity's origins and development, however, remain obscure).
exploring and resourcing the Ancient Near East and Egypthome : mesoptamian religion : assur : sitemap
The emblems of Aššur vary and are probably derived from other Mesopotamian chief deities.
http://www.ancientneareast.net/religion_mesopotamian/gods/assur.html   (264 words)

  
 Assuruballit
And, in Section 60, Lukenbill brings another such list by Assuruballit of his ancestors where again there is no mention of Assur-nadin-ahe.
Then the computations made on the king lists showed a discrepancy of several decades between the reign of Assuruballit and the time allotted to Amenhotep III and Akhnaton, his supposed correspondents.
On a clay table, having the common Assyrian amulet form, we have Assur-uballit’s account of the rebuilding of the palace in the new city (text, KAH, II, No. 27).
http://www.varchive.org/ce/assuruballit.htm   (3442 words)

  
 Poet: King Assur-Bani-Pal - All poems of King Assur-Bani-Pal
One of the most remarkable of recent discoveries is that of the library of King Assur-bani-pal, or, as the Greek historians call him, Sardanapalos,...
Volumes for King Assur-Bani-Pal (Add a volume) Annals of Assur-Nasir-Pal Time Period: -648 Concerning Assur-nasir-habal or Assur...
http://www.poemhunter.com/king-assur-bani-pal/poet-35846   (208 words)

  
 Assur: Page2 - systems intelligence email marketing assured any web site
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systems, intelligence, email, marketing, assured, any, web, site, services, assurance, information
...assured of a dedicated professional team who will ensure that your specific needs are what drive us toward a successful implementation.
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 ASSUR
Assuring you of a top quality service at all times, we do hope to be able to count you among our customers in the near future.
Assur has long-term business relationships with many of these customers, a sign of satisfaction and confidence in our services.
Our sales executives are at your disposal to discuss your individual needs in order to prepare detailed offers tailored to meet your specific requirements.
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 MobyGames - Ted Assur
This does not imply employment by these companies.
His/Her career probably spans more years than those displayed since these dates are based on the credits documented in MobyGames (which are incomplete).
Ted Assur has been credited with the roles Quality Assurance.
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 Food for the Gods - Lyrics
Laws are not etched in stone, they are written in blood.
like my father, and his before, and back to Assur.
My chariots crushed their armies, beaten down as if by a storm.
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 Globeinvestor.com: Carmina Technologies Launches ASSUR Monitoring Product Line
This breakthrough has the potential of placing the Company's Assur product as the technology of choice in jurisdictions around the world.
Our ASSUR family of monitoring services provide for a reliable, cost effective system of monitoring the performance of services critical to maintaining quality control and public health and safety".
President and chief executive officer John Alston said, "With the ASSUR product lines we are bringing tested and developed technology to the market launch.
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 Re: orion 1QM i,1; The 'armies (?) of the Kitti'im of Assur'
Dezember 1998 07:32 Betreff: Re: orion 1QM i,1; The 'armies (?) of the Kitti'im of Assur' Russell Gmirkin writes: >Yet another >method by which Roman military science could have become known to the Jews is >by way of a Roman Tactica or military manual, which were common throughout the >Mediterranean.
First it could - and then it is common?
Re: orion 1QM i,1; The 'armies (?) of the Kitti'im of Assur'
http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il/orion/archives/1998b/msg00238.html   (497 words)

  
 Project: Portland State Univ, The Qual Assur Coll
One challenge facing American higher education is establishing learning expectations for both the institution and the major and to document student progress toward and achievement of those goals.
Project: Portland State Univ, The Qual Assur Coll
http://www.pewundergradforum.org/project19.html   (413 words)

  
 Assur....Ah Swear
He follows the canal and, sure enough, it comes right to the city.
Following the Tigris southward, Apiladey eventually comes to a canal forking off to the west near where Assur should be.
http://www.ancientsites.com/aw/Post/4437   (403 words)

  
 OSCN Found Document:State Mut. Life Assur. Co. of America v. Hampton
Holding that the beneficiary could not recover the proceeds of the insured's life insurance policy, this Court cited Equitable, supra, and stated:
"It may be conceded that a beneficiary in a policy of life insurance who feloniously takes or causes to be taken the life of the assured is thereby barred from collecting the insurance money; and that such rule applies in the absence of statute and is based upon public policy." 53 P.2d at 242.
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 AMERICAN HOME ASSUR. CO. v INTERNATIONAL INSUR. CO - Legal Case Documents
CourtCode: AP, CourtName: NEW YORK COURT OF APPEALS, Plaintiff: AMERICAN HOME ASSUR.
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 liibulletin: American Home Assur. Co. v. International Ins. Co.
State of the Law Before American Home Assur.
Acker-Fitzsimons Corp., 31 N.Y.2d 436 (N.Y. American Home Assur.
Most liability insurance contracts contain provisions requiring the insured to provide prompt notice of any occurrence which may trigger liability.
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 FINANCIAL SECURITY ASSUR HLDGS ( FSE-Y ) Stock Price Quote
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