Collected for the first time by the eminent scholar E. A. Wallis Budge, this work contains all of the written records of the early Assyrian kings, from the reign of Irishum in about B.C. 2000 to the reign of Ashur-nasir-pal, which ended in B.C. 860. The texts are presented in Assyrian with complete English translations and, where appropriate, photographs of the original inscriptions. Budge supplements the texts with discussions of their historical and anthropological contexts, as well as notes on the problems encountered in translation. For its thoroughness and for the fascinating insights it provides, this work remains indispensable to anyone with a serious interest in ancient civilizations.
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OF the circumstances under which the kingdom of Assyria came into being, nothing whatever is known with certainty, but all the evidence on the subject now available tends to prove that Assyria was colonized from Babylonia at some period anterior to B.C. 2200; and we are justified in assuming that her earliest governors and viceroys were nominees of, or at any rate tributaries to, the Babylonians. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cuneiform inscriptions, ina kakkź, kiggati gar, pān kakkź, kissati gar, ina tukulti, ina sarrāni, hand hath conquered, ina igāti, ina isāti, brightly coloured stuffs, bźlu rabū, ina eli, sarru rabū, courageous ruler, heavy spoil, merciless weapon, cylinder inscription, roof thereof, wonderful shepherd, exalted priest, limestone tablet, valiant hero, whose priesthood Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Kurkh Mon, Synchronous History, British Museum, Lower Zāb, Ishtar of Nineveh, Records of the Past, Mount Lebanon, Upper Sea, Schrader's Keilins, Great Sea, Upper Zāb, Assyrian Empire, Standard Inscription, George Smith, Northern Syria, Broken Obelisk, Exalted Prince Browse Sample Pages:
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OF the circumstances under which the kingdom of Assyria came into being, nothing whatever is known with certainty, but all the evidence on the subject now available tends to prove that Assyria was colonized from Babylonia at some period anterior to B.C. 2200; and we are justified in assuming that her earliest governors and viceroys were nominees of, or at any rate tributaries to, the Babylonians. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cuneiform inscriptions, ina kakkź, kiggati gar, pān kakkź, kissati gar, ina tukulti, ina sarrāni, hand hath conquered, ina igāti, ina isāti, brightly coloured stuffs, bźlu rabū, ina eli, sarru rabū, courageous ruler, heavy spoil, merciless weapon, cylinder inscription, roof thereof, wonderful shepherd, exalted priest, limestone tablet, valiant hero, whose priesthood Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Kurkh Mon, Synchronous History, British Museum, Lower Zāb, Ishtar of Nineveh, Records of the Past, Mount Lebanon, Upper Sea, Schrader's Keilins, Great Sea, Upper Zāb, Assyrian Empire, Standard Inscription, George Smith, Northern Syria, Broken Obelisk, Exalted Prince Browse Sample Pages:
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