- Dur-
Sharrukin ("Fortress of Sargon"; Arabic: دور شروكين, Syriac: ܕܘܪ ܫܪܘ ܘܟܢ),
present day Khorsabad, was the ****yrian
capital in the time of
Sargon II...
- 707,
Sargon constructed a new ****yrian
capital named after himself, Dur-
Sharrukin ('Fort Sargon'),
which he made his
official residence in 706.
Sargon considered...
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found on
Cyprus in 1845
Sargonid dynasty, ****yrian
royal dynasty Dur-
Sharrukin (meaning 'city of Sargon), ****yrian city of the Neo-****yrian
Empire (911-605...
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colossal in
scale and in high relief. In the
palace of
Sargon II at Dur-
Sharrukin, a
group of at
least seven lam****u and two such
heroes with
lions surrounded...
- "Sargon the Elder", and in
older literature Shargani-shar-ali and Shargina-
Sharrukin.
Gaston Maspero (ed. A. H. Sayce, trans. M. L. McClure),
History of Egypt...
- and who
discovered the
ruins of the
ancient ****yrian
capital of Dur-
Sharrukin. He was born
Paolo Emiliano Botta in Turin, Italy, on
December 6, 1802...
-
developments came
after the
ruins of Sargon's
ancient capital city, Dur-
Sharrukin, were
discovered by Paul-Émile
Botta in 1843.
Before the
cuneiform inscriptions...
-
existed were
Ashurnasirpal II’s
palace Kalhu and
Sargon II’s
palace Dur-
Sharrukin. They
appear in the
reliefs of the
walls and
throughout the
temples and...
-
Sargon I (also
transcribed as Šarru-kīn I and Sharru-ken I) was the king (Išši’ak Aššur, "Steward of ****ur")
during the Old ****yrian
period from c. 1920...
- Israel. 721 BC—Sargon II
starts to rule. He
builds a new
capital at Dur
Sharrukin (modern Khorsabad). 720 BC—End of the ****yrian
siege of Tyre. 720 BC—Orsippus...
