A history of Babylon from the foundation of the monarchy to the Persian conquest (1915) (14760471616)

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Title: A history of Babylon from the foundation of the monarchy to the Persian conquest
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: King, L. W. (Leonard William), 1869-1919
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Publisher: London : Chatto and Windus
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto



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th of the Taurus.He also conducted a successful campaign in Armenia,from which quarter one of Assyrias most powerfulenemies was about to arise. But it was in Babylonia RELATIONS WITH ASSYRIA 263 that he secured his principal political success. He hasleft us a pictorial record of his campaigns on the bronzesheathing of two cedar-wood doors of his palace; and,as one of the bands commemorates his triumphal marchthrough Chaldea in 851 B.C., it gives us some indicationof the condition of the country at this time. The occasion for Shalmanesers intervention in Baby-lonian affairs was furnished by internal dissension.^ WhenMarduk-bel-usate, the brother of JNIarduk-zakir-shum,revolted, and divided the country into two armed camps,Shalmaneser readily responded to the latters appealfor help, and marching southwards succeeded in defeatingthe rebels and in ravaging the districts under their con-trol. On a second expedition in the following year hecompleted his work by slaying JVlarduk-bel-usate in
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Fig. 61.a chaldean town op the ninth centuky b.c. The male inhabitants are represented leaving with cattle and tribute forShalmaneser III., while the women watch them from the walls.(Prom the Gates of Shalmaneser.) battle, and he was then acknowledged by INIarduk-zakir-shum as his suzerain. In this capacity he touredthrough the principal cities of Akkad, offering sacrificesin the famous temples of Cuthah, Babylon, and Borsippa.He also led his army into Chaldea, and, after stormingits frontier fortress of Bakani, received the submissionof its ruler, Adini, and heavy tribute from him and fromlakin, the Chaldean king of the Sea-Country further tothe south. In his representation of the campaign Shal-maneser is portrayed marching through the country, 1 See King, The Gates of Shalmaneser/ pp. 18 ff., 31 f. 264 HISTORY OF BABYLON and receiving tribute from the Chaldeans, which theycarry from their cities and ferry across streams to depositin the presence of the king and liis officials. But B