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Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ght (c. 833) with the Assyriaus on the Arzanias, which flows intothe Euphrates at Samosata. This ruler is obviously the Sadurisof the Alarodian inscriptions, and seems to have been the founderof a new djaiasty, inasmuch as he does not give the title of king tohis father, Lutipri. He introduced the Alarodian script, for thereare two inscriptions of his in Van still expressed in Assyrian.From an inscription of Asurbanipal, in which the name Sardurisis written with the ideogram Ishtar-dur, we learn that Sar, or Saris,was a name of Ishtar among the Alarodians. There followed Ispui-nis, and then Minnas, under whose son, Argistis I., synchronouswith Shalmaneser III. (780-770), the kingdom attained its high-est point of power. By him was built the acropolis of Van,— named in the inscriptions Khorkhor, — whose fortifications Averecompleted l)y his son. This fortress lies on a great, partially per-pendicular limestone rock, the highest point of which is nearly 320 THE ACllOrOTAS OF VAN. PP
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100 THE SARGONIDAE. feet above the level of the city. The cliff divides itself into threemain portions, in each of which we find rock-grottoes, galleries, andstairs, and numerous Alarodian, Assyrian, and Persian inscriptions.Of Argistiss successors we give merely the names : Sarduris II.,Ursa, Argistis IL, Erimenas, Rusa (Ursa), and Sarduris III. InVan were found Armenian bronzes, which Layard sent to the BritishMuseum. They are in the Assyrian style, but were produced inArmenia. Some of them are inscribed with the name Argistis; andon one is carved a relief representing an Armenian palace with avaulted gate and pinnacles. CHAPTER Y. ASIA AFTER THE OVERTHROW OF THE ASSYRIAN EiAIPIRE. THE Assyrian monarehs had established a great, essentially Se-mitic, empire. The neighboring nations — Egypt, Elam,Arabia, Armenia — were conquered, and, if not subjugated, dared nolonger venture an attack. There were freer intercourse and recipro-city in every department of thought and action — rel

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