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	Ashurnasirpal 1
		Ashurnasirpal was the son of king Shamsi-Addad, and grandson of king Tiglat-pileser 1.
		Ashurnasirpal means "Ashur is Guardian of the Sun".
		The reign of Ashurnasirpal was one weakened from widespread famine and pressure from nomads in the western desert.
	i-cias.com /e.o/ashurnasirpal1.htm (89 words)

	Early history of Assyria
		Ashurnasirpal II was the first to use cavalry units to any large extent in addition to infantry and war-chariot troops.
		Ashurnasirpal, so brutal in his wars, was able to inspire architects, structural engineers, and artists and sculptors to heights never before achieved.
		The son and successor of Ashurnasirpal was Shalmaneser III (858-824).
	www.angelfire.com /nt/Gilgamesh/assyrian.html (9518 words)

	Gesture and alterity in the art of Ashurnasirpal II of Assyria. - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		The narrative scenes carved in low relief on the massive stone slabs that decorated the palaces of first-millennium B.C.E. Assyrian kings in northern Mesopotamia participated in the construction of an Assyrian cultural ideology that was based in part on a negative view of cultural difference.
		In the course of his yearly military campaigns into neighboring territory, Ashurnasirpal forcibly collected enormous quantities of luxury goods, furniture, agricultural produce, raw materials for building, and perhaps most important, captive labor.
		A particularly grandiose gesture on the part of this Assyrian king was the removal of the primary center of the Assyrian government from the city of Ashur, where it had rested since Assyria's inception a thousand years earlier as a political and cultural entity.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-54073981.html (218 words)

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		Nearly every king after Ashurnasirpal II undertook construction projects at Nimrud, which remained the capital of Assyria for over 150 years until Sargon II (721-705 BC) moved his royal residence to Dur-Sharrukin.
		In the Northwest is the royal palace, on the south-eastern side of the city lay the royal arsenal, known today as Fort Shalmaneser.
		Ashurnasirpal II built his palace in the Northwest section of the citadel and it covered an immense area more than 650 feet long and 425 feet wide.
	www.etc.cmu.edu /projects/i4i/nimrud.html (279 words)

	Halabiye and Zalabiye by Carol Miller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Such was the case with the inscriptions ordered by Ashurnasirpal II, installed in Nineveh, Ashur, Balawat and Apqu (Tell Abu Marya), which not only documented construction projects but, in addition, reported the details of fourteen major military campaigns undertaken before 866 B.C., when the records end.
		One mural panel, for example, portrays Ashurnasirpal's journey through the staggered layers of cliffs and pinnacles of a stylized mountainous landscape bordering a river, in turn illustrated by means of wavy lines and spirals.
		The king's carriage, the three matched steeds pulling it, the servants carrying a parasol against the rays of the sun or the arrows prepared in case of attack, the quivers and lances, pull up at a fortress.
	www.syriagate.com /Syria/about/cities/Deir_Ezzor/halabiye-cm.htm (2729 words)

	MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Ashurnasirpal II
		Ashurnasirpal II Ashurnasirpal II reigned in the 9th century bc and was one of the most influential Assyrian rulers.
		Under his rule the Assyrian borders were extended and the capital was moved from Ashur to the restored city of Calah.
		Many monuments to Ashurnasirpal II have been unearthed, making him one of the best-known rulers of the ancient Middle East.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /media_461516630/Ashurnasirpal_II.html (76 words)

	Ancient Near Eastern Art: New Light on an Assyrian Palace \| Explore & Learn \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In these words, the Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II, who ruled from 883 through 859 B.C., describes the founding of his new capital city, Kalhu (modern Nimrud), and the construction of his palace.
		On the raised terrace of the citadel, the Northwest Palace, begun by Ashurnasirpal and completed by his successors, covers an immense area more than 650 feet long and 390 feet wide.
		Ashurnasirpal II built his palace in the northwest section of the citadel of Nimrud.
	www.metmuseum.org /explore/anesite/html/el_ane_new.htm (313 words)

	A General History of the Near East, Chapter 3
		His successor, Ashurnasirpal II (884-859), broke completely with the past by moving the capital to Calah, building a magnificent palace there.
		Ashurnasirpal was also the first outstanding war leader the Assyrians had seen in two centuries.
		The neighboring states were no longer taken by surprise, as they had been in Ashurnasirpal's day, and they joined against the Assyrian threat whenever it came their way (e.g., see the battle of Karkar in the next section).
	xenohistorian.faithweb.com /neareast/ne03.html (8980 words)

	Nineveh Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The grandson of Tiglath-pileser, Ashurnasirpal I (1049-1031 BC), was a weak and ineffectual leader who was unable to do more than defend Assyria proper against his enemies.
		Ashurnasirpal I ruled Assyria when it was passing through a difficult period of nation-wide famine, which was exacerbated by a constant war against the western desert nomads.
		The few inscriptions of Ashurnasirpal I that survive reflect the unhappy situation in Assyria during his reign.
	www.neiu.edu /~lojajou/myIndividual/kinglist/Ashurnasirpal1.htm (164 words)

	Nimrud (Kalhu) - CDLI Wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		According to Ashurnasirpal, they were provided with an enormous amount of food, including 1,500 ducks, 500 geese, 10,000 turtle doves, 10,000 loaves of bread, 10,000 jugs of beer, 10,000 skins of wine, and quantities of nuts, sheep, spices, and vegetables.
		Ashurnasirpal also writes that he decorated the palace with images of his achievements: “I depicted in greenish glaze on their walls my heroic praises, in that I had gone right across highlands, lands, (and) seas, (and) the conquest of all lands” (Grayson 1991: 289).
		As the visitor entered the long hall from the large courtyard, which measured 32 meters by 27 meters and could have held up to one thousand Assyrian citizens, he or she would have passed through a corridor between two massive stone mythical creatures that underscored the significance of the threshold.
	cdli.ucla.edu /wiki/index.php/Nimrud_(Kalhu) (2484 words)

	Many Faces
		We hear nothing about Ashurnasirpal himself being in turn assassinated as were his three previous alter ego's (1-3).
		Ashurnasirpal's Central Nimrud Palace bas relief [310]), and his son, Hazael; surely one of the most powerful and influential father-son royal combinations throughout the whole of antiquity.
		Compare this angle of the mummy's face with the bas-relief from the palace of Ashurnasirpal (a side view) at Calah (Nimrud) where he is pictured as a winged being carrying an ibex.
	www.specialtyinterests.net /the_many_faces_of_ashurnasirpal_and_his_son.html (5620 words)

	Norwich Free Academy Slater Museum Cast Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In this stele, Ashurnasirpal stands in prayer before a palm tree.
		The winged gods hold buckets and flowers to pollinate the tree, symbolizing fertility not only for the palm, but for the king as well.
		Ashurnasirpal built many palaces adorned with numerous sculptural reliefs and these, since their discovery in 1846 A.D., have proven to be of great value in studying Assyrian culture.
	www.norwichfreeacademy.com /slater_museum/shows/cast/5_king_ashurnasirpal.html (118 words)

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		Ashurnasirpal), was the same as Ashurnasirpal II father of Shalmaneser III [2100].
		Ashurnasirpal's) father is given as Ashur-rim-nishesu in the royal records; both names containing at least the rim element [3100].
		Ashurnasirpal II, we are told, reigned for twenty-five years as king of Assyria, and took part in military action almost every summer for the first nine years; after which no further expeditions are recorded.
	www.specialtyinterests.net /el_amarnas_mesopotamians.html (8229 words)

	Nimrud (Calah):
		Ashurnasirpal II, decided early in his reign to build himself a new ‘royal residence’ away from the old capital-city.
		Invasions have shown to the king that the ‘city Ashur’, on the right bank of the Tigris, was dangerously exposed to attacks coming from the west.
		If safety was sought, the site selected by Ashurnasirpal II, Kalhu (Modern Nimrud) thirty-five kilometers south of Mosul, was strategically excellent, and protected as it was by the Tigris to the west and by the Upper Zab flowing at some distance to the south.
	www.angelfire.com /art2/assyrian/Nimrud.html (196 words)

	McGraw-Hill/Dushkin: PowerWeb Article
		Ashurnasirpal II—883-859 B.C. Shalmaneser III—858-824 B.C. Tiglath-pileser III—744-727 B.C. Sargon II—721-705 B.C. Sennacherib—704-681 B.C. Esarhaddon—680-669 B.C. Ashurbanipal—668-627 B.C. Incidentally, Assyrian records, as well as the Bible, mention the military contracts between the Neo-Assyrian empire and the small states of Israel and Judah.
		The palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud is the first, so far as we know, in which carved stone slabs were used in addition to the usual wall paintings.
		From the reign of Shalmaneser III, Ashurnasirpal II’s son, we also have some bronze bands that decorated a massive pair of wooden gates of a temple (and possibly a palace) at Balawat, near modern Mosul.
	www.dushkin.com /olc/genarticle.mhtml?article=11492 (2621 words)

	SuddenWheel: Ashurnasirpal I
		King of Assyria 1050 - 32 BC, when it was at a low ebb in power and prosperity caused by widespread famine and the pressure of western desert nomads, against whom Ashurnasirpal warred constantly.
		His father, Shamshi-Adad IV, a son of Tiglath-pileser I, was placed on the throne of Assyria by the Babylonian king Adad-apal-iddina.
		This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar.
	suddenwheel.blogspot.com /2004/10/ashurnasirpal-i.html (67 words)

	CAMWS 2003: Erwin Cook
		Of these, royal gardens of Assyria from the reign of Ashurnasirpal most closely correspond to Alcinous’ garden: both are walled, irrigated, and contain exotic plant species.
		Ashurnasirpal, for example, boasts of installing a garden that is both a source of pleasure and a working farm: “I irrigated the meadows of the Tigris (and) planted orchards with all (kinds of) fruit trees in its environs.
		Ashurnasirpal boasts that in building his palace “I glazed bricks with lapis lazuli (and) laid (them) above their doorways” (Grayson 1976, 173); even closer is an inscription of Esarhaddon: “um jenen Palast herum liess ich einen Fries und ein Pechnasengesims aus Hämatit und Lapislazuli machen und ihn wie eine Bekrönung umgeben” (Borger 62).
	www.camws.org /meeting/2003/abstracts2003/cook.html (632 words)

	WaitingFeather: Ashurnasirpal I, The rise of the major sects: Vaishnavism, Saivism, and Saktism
		WaitingFeather: Ashurnasirpal I, The rise of the major sects: Vaishnavism, Saivism, and Saktism
		Ashurnasirpal I, The rise of the major sects: Vaishnavism, Saivism, and Saktism
		Ashurnasirpal Ii, The rise of the major sects: Vaishnavism, Saivism, and Saktism
	waitingfeather.blogspot.com /2004/12/ashurnasirpal-i-rise-of-major-sects.html (148 words)

	NIMRUD, THE WAR AND THE ANTIQUITIES MARKETS*
		The bas-reliefs stolen were from the Northwest Palace of King Ashurnasirpal II - fragments that could not be placed in original settings because the preservation of the rooms were not sufficient to be able to identify the exact positions - and from the very poorly preserved Central Palace of King Tiglathpileser III.
		This bas-relief is the upper 60% of a slab from the West Wing of the palace, preserving a figure of a human-headed genius before a sacred tree with two ranks of palmettes.
		From 1974 to 1976, that mission re-excavated an area with buildings of Ashurnasirpal II and Shalmaneser III, Ashurnasirpal's son and successor, and the Central Palace, rediscovering many of the bas-relief fragments originally found in the 19th century but left behind.
	www.ifar.org /nimrud.htm (2380 words)

	Ashurnasirpal I -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		, when it was at a low ebb in power and prosperity caused by widespread famine and the pressure of western desert nomads, against whom Ashurnasirpal warred constantly.
		Ashurnasirpal II king of Assyria 883–859 BC, whose major accomplishment was the consolidation of the conquests of his father, Tukulti-Ninurta II, leading to the establishment of the New Assyrian Empire.
		Although, by his own testimony, he was a brilliant general and administrator, he is perhaps best known for the brutal frankness with which he described the atrocities committed on his...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9009856 (725 words)

	Enculturation: Neil Easterbrook
		Ashurnasirpal was a barbarian, but a sophisticated one.
		The curious thing about Assyrians in general and Ashurnasirpal, their most powerful ruler-general, in particular, is that other than cuneiforms chiseled into stone pillars, they left behind no literature whatsoever.
		Still, Ashurnasirpal evidently could not understand why in the world once subjugated peoples continually revolted, especially when they knew what terrors awaited as a direct response to the slightest defiance.
	enculturation.gmu.edu /1_2/easterbrook.html (4407 words)

	Iraqi archaeologists dig up ancient temple (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Cuneiform writing on the two lions indicated they date back to the reign of the King Ashurnasirpal II, who ruled the Assyrian Empire during the 9th century B.C. The writing also indicated that the building was the temple of Ishtar, ancient Iraqi goddess of love and war.
		He said the courtyard floor was covered by bricks, some of which had texts in cuneiform mentioning Ashurnasirpal II.
		It was from here that Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 B.C.), and his son Shalmaneser III (858-824 B.C.), who constructed the ziggurate and a neighboring temple, ruled a great empire.
	www.arcl.ed.ac.uk /a1/stoppress/stop751.htm (246 words)

	Banquet of Ashurnasirpal
		THE BANQUET OF ASHURNASIRPAL II The following account comes from the Royal Archives of Assyria and dates from the seventh century BCE.
		The speaker is the Emperor Ashurnasirpal (883-859 BCE) displaying his royal power.
		The feast was held to commemorate the inauguration of his new palace in the capital city of Calah.
	www.wittenberg.edu /academics/hist/dbrookshedstrom/105/bqtashur.htm (443 words)

	Banquet of Ashurnasirpal
		THE BANQUET OF ASHURNASIRPAL II The following account comes from the Royal Archives of Assyria and dates from the seventh century BCE.
		The speaker is the Emperor Ashurnasirpal (883-859 BCE) displaying his royal power.
		The feast was held to commemorate the inauguration of his new palace in the capital city of Calah.
	www4.wittenberg.edu /academics/hist/dbrookshedstrom/105/bqtashur.htm (443 words)

	Discovery?
		I believe I have discovered similarities between a hieroglyph of Quetzal Coatl (an Aztec god) and wall reliefs from the Temple of Ashurnasirpal II (an Assyrian King).
		Beginning with the reign of Ashurnasirpal II, Assyrian kings decorated the lower portions of their palace walls with monumental alabaster reliefs.
		I think (and this is PURELY SPECULATIVE at this point) that there may a connection with the Assyrian Tree of Life and the Biblical "Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil".
	www.garone.net /tony/disc.html (885 words)

	Easter Sunday or Ishtar Pagan Day
		King Ashurnasirpal l l (883-856 BC) Assyrian, about 865-860 BC From Nimrud, Temple of Ishtar Sharrat-niphi.
		This statue, which is on its original pedestal of reddish stone, was placed in the Temple of Ishtar to remind the goddess of the king's devotion.
		The lion is one of a pair excavated by Austen Henry Layard in 1850.
	www.retakingamerica.com /easter_and_ishtar.html (951 words)

	CHAPTER 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Thus the mighty kingdom of Ashurnasirpal II and Shalmaneser III was little more than the Assyrian facade of the later Medish Empire, and should properly be dated to the final years of the 7th century and the early years of the 6th.
		It will be obvious that the present writer regards Ashurnasirpal I and Ashurnasirpal II as identical, and that furthermore this man is one and the same as the parricide Mitanni/Mede Kurtiwaza/Ashuruballit, who also launches a great epoch of Assyrian power and expansion.
		If Ashurnasirpal was a Hittite client initially, he eventually ceased to be so, and was to become on the contrary a great enemy of the Hittites, as was Ashuruballit.
	www.consciousevolution.com /Rennes/ramessideschapter3.htm (9138 words)

	MET
		Until it became the capital city under Ashurnasirpal, Nimrud had been no more than a provincial town.
		The new capital occupied an area of about nine hundred acres, around which Ashurnasirpal constructed a mudbrick wall that was 120 feet thick, 42 feet high, and five miles long.
		In the southwest corner of this enclosure was the acropolis, where the temples, palaces, and administrative offices of the empire were located.
	homepage.mac.com /hallmans/2003/NYC/MET/Met.html (779 words)

	Art Bulletin, The: Gesture and alterity in the art of Ashurnasirpal II of Assyria
		The male captives represented in the two scenes from Ashurnasirpal's Throne Room are under guard and bound, with their arms drawn sharply behind their backs and tied with rope.
		The non-Assyrian who appears to be the highest ranking of the captives in the first scene - for he is positioned first and wears a long garment - is attended closely by the Assyrian foot soldier, who grasps him securely by the hair [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 2 OMITTED].
		Because most of the foreign women mentioned as captives in the inscriptions of this reign are royal - wives and daughters of foreign rulers taken as prisoners - it is likely that the female prisoners in these images are royal as well.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0422/is_2_80/ai_54073981/pg_5 (833 words)

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