Ancient Iraq by Georges Roux

Ancient Iraq by Georges Roux

Author:Georges Roux
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: History
ISBN: 9780141938257
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1985-01-02T00:00:00+00:00


‘I forced Kashtiliash, King of Kar-Duniash, to give battle; I brought about the defeat of his armies, his warriors I overthrew. In the midst of that battle my hand captured Kashtiliash, the Kassite king. His royal neck I trod on with my feet, like a galtappu (stool). Stripped and bound, before Ashur my lord I brought him. Sumer and Akkad to its farthest border I brought under my sway. On the lower sea of the rising sun I established the frontier of my land.’29

Three princes, puppets of the Assyrian, sat in quick succession on the throne of Babylon and were in turn attacked by the Elamites, who advanced as far as Nippur. But after seven years of servitude the Babylonians themselves restored their national dynasty. Says a Babylonian chronicle:



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