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    The Rassam cylinder is a cuneiform cylinder, forming a prism with ten faces, written by Neo-Assyrian king Ashurbanipal in 643 BCE. The 7th century BCE...
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    Hormuzd Rassam (Arabic: هرمز رسام; Syriac: ܗܪܡܙܕ ܪܣܐܡ; 1826 – 16 September 1910) was an Assyriologist and author. He is known for making a number of important...
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    Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa Epic of Gilgamesh Enûma Eliš Rassam cylinder K.3364 Tablets and cylinders from the Royal Library Tablet containing part of the...
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    controversial. The Assyro-British archaeologist Hormuzd Rassam discovered the Cyrus Cylinder in March 1879 during a lengthy programme of excavations in...
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    suggesting either the Indus valley. However, much later texts, such as the Rassam cylinder documenting the military exploits of King Assurbanipal of Assyria (668–627...
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  • Neo-Babylonian texts, and Mu-ṣur in neo-Assyrian Akkadian (as seen on the Rassam cylinder). To this root is appended the dual suffix -āyim, perhaps referring...
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    BC (top), and in the Neo-Assyrian script of the Rassam cylinder, 643 BC (bottom). The Rassam cylinder with translation of a segment about the Assyrian...
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    killed by the sword and flung on the dung heap.[citation needed] The Rassam cylinder in the British Museum describes this: Their corpses they hung on stakes...
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    Name used in Neo-Babylonian inscriptions, such as the Rassam cylinder of Ashurbanipal Rassam cylinder transcription in "CDLI-Archival View". cdli.ucla.edu...
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    father had conquered and incorporated into Assyrian territory.... — Rassam cylinder of Ashurbanipal. As late as 665 BC, the vassal rulers of Sais, Mendes...
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