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Title: Nineveh and Babylon : a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, & 1851
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Layard, Austen Henry, Sir, 1817-1894
Subjects: Nineveh (Extinct city) Babylon (Extinct city) Middle East -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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of these seals are Assyrian, but amongstthem are some bearing Egyptian, Phoenician, and othersymbols and characters. Sometimes several impressions ofthe same seal are found on one piece of clay. The Assyriandevices are of various kinds, the most common is that of aking slaying a lion with his sword or dagger. This wouldappear to be a royal signet. It is frequently surrounded byan inscription, or by an ornamental border. But the most important and remarkable discovery wasthat of a piece of clay bearing the impression of two royalsignets, one Assyrian, the other Egyptian. The Egyptianrepresents the king slaying his enemies. The name, writtenin hieroglyphics and enclosed in the usual royal cartouche,is that of Sabaco the Second, the Ethiopian, of the twenty-fifth Egyptian dynasty. This king reigned in Egypt at theend of the seventh century B.C., about the time when Senna-cherib ascended the Assyrian throne. He was, it is believed,the So, mentioned in the second book of Kings (xvii. 4) as
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Impressions of the Signets of the Kings of Assyria and Egypt. (Original Size.) Part of Cartouche of Sabaco, enlarge,from the Impression of his Signet. having received ambassadors from Hoshea, king of Israel,who, by entering into a league with the Egyptians, calleddown the vengeance of Shalmaneser, whose tributary he was,which led to the first great captivity of the people of Samaria.Shalmaneser was the immediate predecessor of Sennacherib,and Tirakah, the Egyptian king, who was defeated by the 74 NINEVEH AND BABYLON. (Chap. Assyrians near Lachish, was the immediate successor ofSabaco. We may conjecture that these seals were attached to atreaty of peace concluded between the Assyrian and Egyptiankings, and deposited in the royal archives at Nineveh; and thatthe document itself, probably written on papyrus or parchment,has perished. This singular proof of the alliance betweenthe two monarchs is still preserved with the remains of thestate documents of the Assyrian empire; furnishing one

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