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| | Calculated Frightfulness of Ashur Nasir Apal, A.T. Olmstead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23) |
 | | With the army thus supplied, and doubtless it was needed after the march through the desert stages, Tukulti Ninib continued to the field of Kasi and to Sirqu, the home of Mudada, who now furnished his formal tribute, including a talent of myrrh. |
 | | The greatest single contribution the Assyrians handed down to the after world is to be found in their provincial organization and it is to Ashur nasir apal, more than to any other single ruler, that the principles of efficient provincial administration are to be attributed. |
 | | In the gates were 'beasts of the mountains and of the seas, fashioned of white limestone and alabaster.' Thrones of all precious woods and covered with ivory and the metals, the spoil of the lands, were set up within. |
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