Egypt
_The line of Assyrian kings after Assurirba, and the Babylonian dynasties: the war between Rammân-nirâri III. and Shamash-mudammiq; his victories over Babylon; Tukulti-ninip II. (890-885 B.C.)--The empire at the accession of Assur-nazir-pal: the Assyrian army and the progress...
Assyria was the first to reappear on the scene of action. Less hampered by an ancient past than Egypt and Chaldæa, she was the sooner able to recover her strength after any disa...
12. CHAPTER III--SARGON OF ASSYRIA (722-705 B.C.)Whether Sargon was even remotely connected with the royal line, is a question which for the present must remain unanswered. He mentions in one of his inscriptions the three hund...
7. xii. 12), though it was in that year laid waste andThe halo of grandeur and renown with which Jeroboam had surrounded the kingdom could not hide its wretched and paltry character from the prophets eyes; for yet a little while,...
4. xxii. 42); secondly, eight years of Jehoram, son ofJehoshaphat (2 Kings viii. 17); thirdly, one year of Ahaziah, son of Jehoram (2 Kings viii. 26)--in all 17 years, which must be reduced and condensed into the period between 853...
6. CHAPTER II--TIGLATH-PILESER III. AND THE ORGANISATION OF THE ASSYRIANEvents proved that, in this period, at any rate, the decadence of Assyria was not due to any exhaustion of the race or impoverishment of the country, but was mainly owing to the...
9. xxxvii. 12) and the Resapha of Ptolemy, now Er-Rasafa, toMost of them included--in addition to the territory under the immediate control of the governor--a number of vassal states, kingdoms, cities, and tribes, which enjoyed a certain...
8. xvi. 1) and the Daneon Portus of Pliny on the Red Sea, butNaville prefers to identify Daneon with the Tonu of the _Berlin Papyrus No. 1_. I believe that we ought to look for the kingdom of Auputi in the neighbourhood of Menzaleh, near...
3. viii. 25, I have everywhere written Joram (of Israel) and**** Athaliah is sometimes called the daughter of Ahab (2 Kings viii. 18), and sometimes the daughter of Omri (2 Kings viii. 26; cf. 2 Ohron. xxii. 2), and several authors prefe...
10. xviii. 9-12) which deal with the close of the kingdom ofIsrael, have been interpreted in such a way as to give us two campaigns by Shalmaneser against Hoshea: (1) Hoshea having failed to pay the tribute imposed upon him by Tiglath-pi...
13. xiv. 4-20, which he takes as having been composed to exultThus mysteriously disappeared the founder of the mightiest dynasty that ever ruled in Assyria, perhaps even in the whole of Western Asia. At first sight, it would seem easy enou...
1. Volume VII._The line of Assyrian kings after Assurirba, and the Babylonian dynasties: the war between Rammân-nirâri III. and Shamash-mudammiq; his victories over Babylon; Tukulti-ninip II....
5. CHAPTER II--TIGLATH-PILESER III. AND THE ORGANISATION OF THE ASSYRIAN_Assyria and its neighbours at the accession of Tiglath-pileser III.: progress of the Aramæans in the basin of the Middle Tigris--Urartu and its expansion into the north of Syri...
11. CHAPTER III--SARGON OF ASSYRIA (722-705 B.C.)_The origin of Sargon II.: the revolt of Babylon, Merodach-baladan and Elam--The kingdom of Elam from the time of the first Babylonian empire; the conquests of Shutruh-nalkunta...