Grisly Assyrian Record of Torture and Death

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Assyrian national history, as it has been preserved for us in inscriptions and pictures, consists almost solely of military campaigns and battles. It is as gory and bloodcurdling a history as we know. Assyria emerged as a territorial state in the 14th century B.C. Its territory covered approximately the northern part of modern Iraq. The first capital of Assyria was Assur, located about 150 miles north of modern Baghdad on the west bank of the Tigris River. The city was named for its national god, Assur, from which the name Assyria is also derived. From the outset, Assyria projected […]

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Endnotes

Stephanie Page, “A Stela of Adad-nirari III and Nergal-eres from Tell al Rimah,” Iraq 30 (1968), p. 143.

Albert Kirk Grayson, Assyrian Royal Inscriptions, Part 2: From Tiglath-pileser I to Ashur-nasir-apli II (Wiesbaden, Germ.: Otto Harrassowitz, 1976), p. 165.

Grayson, p. 120.

Grayson, p. 124.

Grayson, pp. 126–127.

Grayson, p. 126.

Grayson, p. 143.

Daniel David Luckenbill, Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia, 2 vols. (Chicago Univ. of Chicago Press, 1926–1927), vol. 1, secs. 584–585.

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Luckenbill, vol. 1, sec. 599.

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Luckenbill, vol. 1, sec. 783.

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Luckenbill, vol. 2, sec. 22.

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Luckenbill, vol. 2, sec. 254.

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Luckenbill, vol. 2, sec. 511.

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Luckenbill, vol. 2, sec. 521.

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Luckenbill, vol. 2, sec. 528.

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Luckenbill, vol. 2, secs. 795–796.

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Luckenbill, vol. 2, sec. 800.

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Luckenbill, vol. 2, sec. 810.