- Dur-
Sharrukin (Neo-****yrian Akkadian: 𒂦𒈗𒁺, romanized: Dūr Šarru-kīn, "Fortress of Sargon"; Arabic: دور شروكين, Syriac: ܕܘܪ ܫܪܘ ܘܟܢ),
present day Khorsabad...
- 707,
Sargon constructed a new ****yrian
capital named after himself, Dur-
Sharrukin ('Fort Sargon'),
which he made his
official residence in 706.
Sargon considered...
- "Sargon the Elder", and in
older literature Shargani-shar-ali and Shargina-
Sharrukin.
Gaston Maspero (ed. A. H. Sayce, trans. M. L. McClure),
History of Egypt...
-
colossal in
scale and in high relief. In the
palace of
Sargon II at Dur-
Sharrukin, a
group of at
least seven lam****u and two such
heroes with
lions surrounded...
-
found on
Cyprus in 1845
Sargonid dynasty, ****yrian
royal dynasty Dur-
Sharrukin (meaning 'city of Sargon), ****yrian city of the Neo-****yrian
Empire (911-605...
-
existed were
Ashurnasirpal II’s
palace Kalhu, and
Sargon II’s
palace Dur-
Sharrukin. They
appear in the
reliefs of the
walls and
throughout the
temples and...
-
developments came
after the
ruins of Sargon's
ancient capital city, Dur-
Sharrukin, were
discovered by Paul-Émile
Botta in 1843.
Before the
cuneiform inscriptions...
-
Sargon II (722–705 BC), a new
capital began to rise: Dur-
Sharrukin (Fortress of Sargon). Dur-
Sharrukin was
originally planned to be
built on a
scale set to...
-
transferred the
capital in 706 BC to the city Dur-
Sharrukin,
which he
built himself.
Since the
location of Dur-
Sharrukin had no
obvious practical or
political merit...
- and who
discovered the
ruins of the
ancient ****yrian
capital of Dur-
Sharrukin. He was born
Paolo Emiliano Botta in Turin, Italy, on
December 6, 1802...
