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Bookmark or Share- Ashurbanipal - World History EncyclopediaAshurbanipal (r. 668-627 BCE, also known as Assurbanipal) was the last of the great kings of Assyria.His name means "the god Ashur is creator of an heir" and he was the son of King Esarhaddon of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.In the Hebrew Tanakh (the Christian Old Testament) he is called As(e)nappar or Osnapper (Ezra 4:10). The Greeks knew him as Sardanapolos and the Romans as Sardanapulus.
- Ashurbanipal - WikipediaAshurbanipal (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: Aššur-bāni-apli, meaning "Ashur is the creator of the heir") was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 669 BC to his death in 631. He is generally remembered as the last great king of Assyria. Ashurbanipal inherited the throne as the favored heir of his father Esarhaddon; his 38-year reign was among the longest of any Assyrian king.
- Library of Ashurbanipal - World History EncyclopediaThe Library of Ashurbanipal (7th century BCE) is the oldest known systematically organized library in the world, established in Nineveh by the Neo-Assyrian king Ashurbanipal (r. 668-627 BCE) to preserve the history and culture of Mesopotamia.Over 30,000 texts were discovered at Nineveh in the mid-19th century, but the original collection is thought to have been much larger.
- I am Ashurbanipal king of the world, king of AssyriaKing Ashurbanipal of Assyria (r. 669–c. 631 BC) was the most powerful man on earth. He described himself in inscriptions as 'king of the world', and his reign from the city of Nineveh (now in northern Iraq) marked the high point of the Assyrian empire, which stretched from the shores of the eastern Mediterranean to the mountains of western Iran.
- Ashurbanipal - Encyclopedia of The Bible - Bible GatewayASHURBANIPAL ăsh’ ər băn’ ə pəl (Assyrian personal name aššur-bān-apli, “Ashur has created an heir,” traditionally identified with אָסְנַפַּר׃֙ Osnappar, Ezra 4:10).King of Assyria, 669-c. 626 b.c.. 1. His reign.In May 672 b.c. Esarhaddon publicly designated Ashurbanipal to be the crown-prince and future ruler of Assyria and his twin brother Shamash-shum-ukin to the ...
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