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STUDIES IN GREEK ART.
far to the north up to Lake Van, to the west to the
Tyrian Sea ; but at the end of his reign, noo B.C., he
seems to have been worsted by the Babylonians; and
it is soon after this, about 1060 B.C., that their empire
revives. In the second Assyrian empire we have the
great names of Assurnazirpal, who rebuilt Calah (Nim-
roud); of Shalmaneser, his son, who enlarged and added
to the palaces his father built, whose history is in part
written on the Balawat gates in the British Museum.
The city was still further beautified by Tiglath Pileser II.
With Sargon begins the history of Khorsabad, the new
city he built himself ten miles away from Nineveh, up
a small tributary of the Tigris. He was followed by
Sennacherib, 705, who built the palace we know as
Koujunjik, at the old city of Nineveh. We know how
Sennacherib was smitten by his sons as he was worship-
ping in the house of Nisroch, his god, and “ Esarhaddon
his son reigned in his stead.” It is he who tells us that
he seized the King of Sidon “like a fish in the middle of
the sea, and cut off his head.” (3) He enlarged the
palace of his father, Sennacherib, at Calah, and also built
a new palace at Calah. Last, for our purpose, we have
the king who was a scholar as well as a warrior, to whom
“ Nebo and Tasmib gave broad ears and seeing eyes,”
Assurbanipal, 668 B.C. He restored and extended and
redecorated the palaces of his grandfather, Sennacherib,
near Nineveh (Koujunjik). The kings of Assyria had
STUDIES IN GREEK ART.
far to the north up to Lake Van, to the west to the
Tyrian Sea ; but at the end of his reign, noo B.C., he
seems to have been worsted by the Babylonians; and
it is soon after this, about 1060 B.C., that their empire
revives. In the second Assyrian empire we have the
great names of Assurnazirpal, who rebuilt Calah (Nim-
roud); of Shalmaneser, his son, who enlarged and added
to the palaces his father built, whose history is in part
written on the Balawat gates in the British Museum.
The city was still further beautified by Tiglath Pileser II.
With Sargon begins the history of Khorsabad, the new
city he built himself ten miles away from Nineveh, up
a small tributary of the Tigris. He was followed by
Sennacherib, 705, who built the palace we know as
Koujunjik, at the old city of Nineveh. We know how
Sennacherib was smitten by his sons as he was worship-
ping in the house of Nisroch, his god, and “ Esarhaddon
his son reigned in his stead.” It is he who tells us that
he seized the King of Sidon “like a fish in the middle of
the sea, and cut off his head.” (3) He enlarged the
palace of his father, Sennacherib, at Calah, and also built
a new palace at Calah. Last, for our purpose, we have
the king who was a scholar as well as a warrior, to whom
“ Nebo and Tasmib gave broad ears and seeing eyes,”
Assurbanipal, 668 B.C. He restored and extended and
redecorated the palaces of his grandfather, Sennacherib,
near Nineveh (Koujunjik). The kings of Assyria had