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Definition of Assurbanipal

1. Noun. King of Assyria who built a magnificent palace and library at Nineveh (668-627 BC).

Lexicographical Neighbors of Assurbanipal

Literary usage of Assurbanipal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Images, Power, and Politics: Figurative Aspects of Esarhaddon's Babylonian by Barbara N. Porter (1993)
"The walls of Babylon as they now stand date from the later Neo-Babylonian period.113 109 assurbanipal inscriptions C, LI, L2, L6, PI, S2, S3, ..."

2. The Masterpieces and the History of Literature: Analysis, Criticism by Julian Hawthorne, John Russell Young, Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh, John Porter Lamberton (1906)
"Assur, my divine generator, revealed my name to him in a dream, saying : " assurbanipal, the king of Assyria ; place thyself at his feet, and thou shalt ..."

3. The World's Progress: With Illustrative Texts from Masterpieces of Egyptian by Delphian Society, Ida Ethelwyn Wing (1911)
"Assur, my divine generator, revealed my name to him in a dream, saying : " assurbanipal, the king of Assyria ; place thyself at his feet, and thou shalt ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Under such circumstances Egypt's influence in Palestine must have dwindled to nothing. struggle in which his protector, assurbanipal, had now become ..."

5. The Egypt of the Past by Sir Erasmus Wilson (1881)
"Then followed another forty days' march of the Assyrian army from Lower Egypt to Thebes, this time led by assurbanipal in person, who was provoked to anger ..."

6. Catalogue of the Cuneiform Tablets in the Kouyunjik Collection of the by Carl Bezold, Leonard William King, Wilfred G. Lambert, Alan Ralph Millard (1896)
"Part of an inscription of assurbanipal, corresponding with Rm. 1 (see above, p. 1570), Column I, lines 33 ff. ; Column II, lines 14 ff. ..."

7. Hours with the Bible, Or, The Scriptures in the Light of Modern Knowledge by Cunningham Geikie (1892)
"assurbanipal says in his annals, " The rest of the people I threw alive into the midst of the bulls and lions, as Sennacherib my grandfather used to do. ..."

8. The Prophecies of Isaiah: A New Translation with Commentary and Appendices by Thomas Kelly Cheyne (1884)
"The same king assurbanipal states at the solemn opening of his Annals, that the gods ' in the body of his mother have made (him) to rule Assyria. ..."

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