Esarhaddon
c. 681 BCE · Nineveh
Esarhaddon (r. 681–669 BCE), son of Sennacherib, rebuilt Babylon — the city his father had destroyed — and conquered Egypt, briefly making Assyria master of the Nile as well as the Near East. His reign is well documented through royal inscriptions, an unusually rich record of oracle queries and omen reports, and the succession treaties by which he sought to secure the throne for his sons. He arranged that his son Ashurbanipal would rule Assyria while another son, Šamaš-šuma-ukīn, held Babylon.
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Nineveh
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Capital of the Neo-Assyrian empire on the east bank of the Tigris opposite modern Mosul; the Kuyunjik mound held Ashurbanipal's great library. A pin here marks where the tablet was unearthed, not where its text was first composed.
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