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Title: History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry), 1845-1933 McClure, M. L., d. 1918
Subjects: Civilization, Ancient History, Ancient
Publisher: London : Grolier Society
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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for not having persevered in his design to theend, and reduced her to a mere name. In the midst of these costly and absorbing wars, we maywell wonder how Sennacherib found time and means tobuild villas or temples ; yet he is nevertheless, among thekings of Assyria, the monarch who has left us the largestnumber of monuments. He restored a shrine of Nergalin the small town of Tarbizi; he fortified the village ofAlshi; and in 704 b.c. he founded a royal residence in the THE BUILDINGS AT NINEVEH 63 fortress of Kakzi, which defended the approach to Calahfrom the south-east. He did not reside ranch at Dur-Sharrukin, neither did he complete the decoration of hisfathers palace there : his pride as a victorious warriorsuffered when his surroundings reminded him of a moresuccessful conqueror than himself, and Calah itself was toofuU of memories of Tiglath-pileser III. and the sovereignsof the eighth century for him to desire to establish hiscourt there. He preferred to reside at Nineveh, which
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THE MOUNDS OF NINEVEH SEEN TROM THE TEEEACE OF A HOUSE IN MOSUL. had been much neglected by his predecessors, and wherethe crumbling edifices merely recalled the memory of long-vanished splendours. He selected this city as his resi-dence at the very beginning of his reign, perhaps while hewas still only crown prince, and began by repairing itsancient fortifications ; later on, when the success of hisearlier campaigns had furnished him with a sufficientsupply of prisoners, he undertook the restoration of thewhole city, with its avenues, streets, canals, quays, gardens,and aqueducts : the labour of all the captives broughttogether from different quarters of his empire was pressedinto the execution of his plans—the Kalda, the Aramasans, 1 Drawn by Boudier, from a lithograpii in Layard. 64 SENNACHERIB the Mannai, the people of Kui, the Cilioians, thePhilistines, and the Tyrians; the provinces vied with eachother in furnishing him with materials without stint,—precious woods were procu

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