The notion was to rehabilitate the reputation of Asurbanipal, the second-last King of Assyria, whom the Greeks called "Sardanapalus," who reigned in Nineveh six hundred years before. From Wordnik.com. [William of Germany] Reference
Berosus, of the "Namar-Beli" from the library the Asurbanipal was known to classical antiquity. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
The notion was to rehabilitate the reputation of Asurbanipal, the second-last King of Assyria, whom the Greeks called. From Wordnik.com. [William of Germany]
One hundred generations of men came and went without once pronouncing the name of kings Shalmaneser or Asumazirpal or Asurbanipal. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences] Reference
Asurbanipal, who had now succeeded his father Earsarhaddon, straightway attacked Taharqa, and the King of Ethiopia fell back once more toward the Cataracts. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference
When conquered by Asurbanipal (640 B.C.), the Nabaitu were a powerful North-Arabian tribe which had fought its way as far as the countries of Edom, Moab, and Ammon. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
Schrader also gives the list of twenty-two kings who are recorded on a cuneiform tablet as tributaries to Asurbanipal in the land of Hatti; second on this list is Miinsii sar mat Yaudi. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
The oldest astrological document extant is the work called "Namar-Beli" (Illumination of Bel) composed for King Sargon I (end of the third millennium B.C.) and contained in the cuneiform library of King Asurbanipal (668-626 B.C.). From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
Esarhaddon and Asurbanipal in their western campaigns crossed the territory of the Philistines and held it in subjection, and after the decline of Assyria the encroachments of the Assyrians gave place to those of the Egyptians under the. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
There was at least one king of Assyria -- namely, Asurbanipal, whose palace boasted a library of some ten thousand volumes -- a library, if you please, in which the books were numbered and shelved systematically, and classified and cared for by an official librarian. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences] Reference
It would be nothing strange, but rather in keeping with their previous mutations of fortune, if the names of Asurnazirpal and Asurbanipal should be familiar as household words to future generations that have forgotten the existence of an Alexander, a Cæsar, and a Napoleon. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences] Reference
Asurbanipal, king of Assyria, v. 4. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry] Reference
Asurbanipal completely broke his power. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference
Asurbanipal. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry] Reference
Stone by Young and Champollion, p. 290 -- The "Cedar of Lebanon," p. 291 -- The restoration of Assyrian sculptures, p. 293 -- The great library of Asurbanipal, p. 294 -- How the records were read, p. 297 -- The work of Sir Henry Rawlinson, p. 299. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences] Reference
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