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Title: History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry), 1845-1933 McClure, M. L., d. 1918
Subjects: Civilization, Ancient History, Ancient
Publisher: London : Grolier Society
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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e individuality was eclipsed by that of theirmaster, their skill and talent being aU placed to his credit.Babylonia shared equally with Assyria in the benefits of hisgovernment. He associated himself with his brotherShamash-shumukin in the task of completing the temple ofE-Sagilla; afterwards, when sole monarch, he continuedthe work of restoration, not only in Babylon, but in thelesser cities as well, especially those which had sufferedmost during the war, such as Uru, Uruk, Borsippa, andCutha.^ He remodelled the temple of Bel at Nippur, thewalls built there by him being even now distinguishable 1 He refers to the works at Borsippa and Kuta towards the end of theaccount of his campaign against Shamash-shumukin, and to those at Urukin describing the war against KhumMn-khaldash. 294 THE MEDES AND THE SECOND CHALDEAN EMPIRE from the rest by the size of the bricks and the carefuldressing of the masonry. From the shores of the PersianGulf to the mountains of Armenia, Assyria and Karduniash
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REMAINS OF ASSUE-BANI-PALs WALL AT NIPPUR. were covered with building-yards just as they had been inthe most peaceful days of the monarchy. It was at this unique juncture of apparent grandeur andprosperity that Phraortes resolved to attack Assur-bani-pal.There is nothing to indicate that his action took placesimultaneously with some movement on the part of otherpeoples, or with a serious insurrection in any of the Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from the photograph published by Peters. DEFEAT AND DEATH OF PHRAORTES 295 Assyrian provinces. For my part, I prefer to set it downto one of those sudden impulses, those irresistible outburstsof self-confidence, which from time to time actuated theprinces tributary to Nineveh or the kings on its frontier.The period of inactivity to which some previous defeatinflicted on them or on their predecessors had condemnedthem, allowed them to regain their strength, and one ortwo victories over less powerful neighbours served toobliterate the memory of former h

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