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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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tory had cost the Assyrians dearly,and the enemy still appeared to them so formidable thatEsarhaddon prudently abstained from pursuing him upthe Nile Valley. He favourably received those feudallords and petty kings who presented themselves to payhim homage, and confirmed them in possession of theirfiefs, but he placed over them Assyrian governors andimposed new official names on their cities; thus Athribiswas officially called Limir-pateshi-assur, and other citiesreceived the names Assur-makan-tishkul, Bit-marduk-sha-assur-taru, Shaimuk-assur. He further imposed on thema heavy annual tribute of more than six talents of goldand six hundred talents of silver, besides robes and woven 150 THE POWER OP ASSYRIA AT ITS ZENITH stuffs, wine, skins, horses, sheep, and asses; and havingaccomplished this, he retraced his steps towards thenorth-east with immense booty and innumerable convoysof prisoners. The complete defeat of the Ethiopian powerfilled not only Esarhaddon himself but all Asia with
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SOUTHERN PEOMONTORY AT THE MOUTH OF THE NAHE-EL-KELB. astonishment. His return to Nineveh was a triumphalprogress; travelling through Syria by short stages, heparaded his captives and trophies before the peoples andprinces who had so long relied on the invincible powerof the Pharaoh. Esarhaddons predecessors had morethan once inscribed the record of their campaigns on therocks of the Nahr-el-Kelb, beside the bas-relief engraved Drawn by Boudier, from a photograph recently brought back byLortet. RESULTS OP THE EGYPTIAN CAMPAIGN 157 there by Eamses II., and it had been no small grati-fication to their pride thus to place themselves on afooting of equality with one of the most illustrious heroesof the ancientEgyptian empire.The footpathwhich skirts thesouthern bank ofthe river, andturning to thesouth is con-tinued along theseashore, was bor-dered by the greatstelae in which,one after another,they had thoughtto immortalisetheir glory; fol-lowing their ex-ample, Esarhad-don was in likemann

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