Search Results: Ashurbanipal II

This is a detail of a large wall relief of the so-called Assyrian lion-hunting scenes. This is the Assyrian King Ashurbanipal II. The King holds a long spear and is about to thrust it into a rearing lion's mouth (not shown here). Note the...

A close-up image of a red sandstone stela depicting the Assyrian King Ashurbanipal II. The king holds a ritual basket of earth on his head (not shown here) for the rebuilding of E-Zida temple. Neo-Assyrian Period, 668-655 BCE. From the temple...

Ashurbanipal (r. 668-627 BCE, also known as Assurbanipal) was the last of the great kings of Assyria. His name means "the god Ashur is creator of an heir" and he was the son of King Esarhaddon of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. In the Hebrew Tanakh...

The Library of Ashurbanipal (7th century BCE) is the oldest known systematically organized library in the world, established in Nineveh by the Neo-Assyrian king Ashurbanipal (r. 668-627 BCE) to preserve the history and culture of Mesopotamia...

The Sargonid Dynasty was the last ruling house of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 722-612 BCE, beginning with the reign of Sargon II and ending with fall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Some of the most famous kings in the history of Assyria come...

Ashurbanipal's collection of Sumerian and Babylonian proverbs formed part of the famous Library of Ashurbanipal (7th century BCE) established at Nineveh for the express purpose of preserving the knowledge of the past for future generations...

Zakutu (l. c. 728 - c. 668 BCE) was the Akkadian name of Naqi’a, a secondary wife of Sennacherib of Assyria (r. 705-681 BCE). Though she was not Sennacherib's queen, she bore him a son, Esarhaddon, who would succeed him. She may have ruled...

Clay cylinder of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal II (reigned 668-626 BCE). The cuneiform inscriptions on this cylinder talk about Nemitti-Ellil (or Nemet-Enlil) and the inner wall of Babylon's double city walls. From Iraq. The Vorderasiatisches...

The Neo-Assyrian Empire (912-612 BCE) was the final stage of the Assyrian Empire, stretching throughout Mesopotamia, the Levant, Egypt, Anatolia, and into parts of Persia and Arabia. Beginning with the reign of Adad Nirari II (912-891 BCE...

Assyria was the region located in the ancient Near East which, under the Neo-Assyrian Empire, reached from Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) through Asia Minor (modern Turkey) and down through Egypt. The empire began modestly at the city of Ashur...