Identifier: dictionaryofbibl01scha (find matches)
Title: A dictionary of the Bible..
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Schaff, Philip, 1819-1893
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Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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mounds, written incuneiform or wedge-shaped charactersand in the Assyrian tongue. The in-scriptions were upon slabs of stone,which formed the panels of the palace-walls, on obelisks of stone, on clay tab-lets, and on cylinders or hexagonalprisms of terra cotta two or three feetlong. These tablets and cylinders wereundoubtedly a part of the royal libraryin the days of Tiglath-pileser and ofother noted kings. The Assyrian power was a singlemonarchy from the beginning, and gradually grewby conqueringthe smaller statesaround it; andthere is conse-quently a uni-formity in itsrecords and tra-ditions whichmakes themeasier to followthan those of thesister kingdom.—George Smith,Assyrian Discov-eries, 1875, p. 447.A list of 50 As-syrian kings whoreigned from b. c.1850 to b. c. 607has been com-piled from theroyal tablets byGeorge Smith.Of these kings,twenty-eightreigned previoustoliglath-pileserI., B. c. 1120 j fif-temples, palaces, and other evidences of I teen reigned from Tiglath-pileser I.
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Assyrian greatness have been brought to light within the past forty years ; I even large portions of the vast libraries ; of her kings have been discovered, the ; unknown characters in which they were eser IV., Sargon to Tiglath-pileser II., b. c. 7-15; andafter his time reigned the followingseven, four of whom are certainy men-tioned in Scripture history : Shalman- macherib, Es;ir- written have been deciphered, and the haddon, Assur-banipal, Bel-zakir-iskun,inscriptions and records translated intomodern languages, not only giving ahistory of the exploits of this remark-able nation, but also throwing muchlight on its customs, religious life, andlanguage, and upon the many Scripturereferences to Assyria. A vast mass of documents has been and Assur-ebil-ili. The first capital ofAssyria was Asshur, on the Tigris,about 60 miles south of Nineveh : itssecond capital, founded or more prob-ably rebuilt and enlarged by Shalman-eser I., was Calah or Halah. As Assyr-ian conquests extended north

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