The 10 ft. 7 in. In the 1950s, excavators from the British School of Archaeology in Iraq TT  found 8 copies of the treaty in the throne room of the temple of Nabu at Kalhu. : place of creation) in the mountains, statues of protective deities (lit. The name Sardanapalus seems to derive from that of Assurbanipal. Look at the breadth of his interest. Babylonian mathematics used the sexagesimal system that we still use for time (1 hour is comprised of 60 minutes is comprised of 60 seconds) and geometry (a circle is 360 degrees with each degree divided into 60 minutes and then 60 seconds). © The Trustees of the British Museum. Experience had shown him that the change of rule from one king to the next was a dangerous time. In 681 BC Sennacherib was murdered by other sons who tried t… In 672 Esarhaddon decreed that one son, Ashubanipal, would succeed him on the throne of Assyria, and another son, Shamash-shum-ukin, would be king of Babylon. Intrigues made him flee the royal court. Esarhaddon's Annals. Esarhaddon's own ascent to the throne was not straightforward, even though he had been made crown prince TT  by his father, king Sennacherib PGP . Tayinat was once the capital of the Assyrian province TT  of Kullania. This paper provides evidence for the existence of a new inscription of Esarhaddon from Nineveh: A 16926, a piece now in the Oriental Institute (University of Chicago), is not an exemplar of Nineveh B, but rather part of an edition of Esarhaddon’s ‘annals’ from Nineveh that was composed before Esarhaddon’s 5th year (676). Esarhaddon died in 669 and the arrangement worked for almost two decades. The 10 ft. 7 in. So commanded king Esarhaddon in the spring of 672 BC, as he bound the inhabitants of the Assyrian empire to ensure the succession TT  of his son, Assurbanipal. Esarhaddon made the latter swear an oath of loyalty to the former. The king's image was defaced when Assyrian troops stormed Babylon in 648 BC. Esarhaddon died in 669 and the arrangement worked for almost two decades. : of Lamassû and Shêdu) made of anan-stone, statues of (female) abzaztu, thresholds, slabs of limestone, of anan-stone, of large- and small-grained breccia, of alallu-stone, (and) of gi.rin.hi.li.ba-stone. In 672 Esarhaddon decreed that one son, Ashubanipal, would succeed him on the throne of Assyria, and another son, Shamash-shum-ukin, would be king of Babylon. There were examples of myths: Enuma Elish, the Gilgamesh Epic we talked about several weeks ago. © The Trustees of the British Museum. Esarhaddon ruled the Assyrian Empire c. 680-669 B.C. Such a long and important text required equally grand clay tablets TT . The full text and translation is available online (SAA 2: 006). Esarhaddon's own ascent to the throne was not straightforward, even though he had been made crown princeTT by his father, king SennacheribPGP . Content last modified: 31 Dec 2015. It is not certain that the treaties had originally been stored there, however. Esarhaddon made the latter swear an oath of loyalty to the former. Although Ashurbanipal reigned for 42years, he appears only once in the biblical record in Ezra 4:10 as "the great and noble Osnappar," the Hebrew form of his Assyrian name. In 672 BC the ageing king Esarhaddon put into effect a strategy for his succession. In return for tribute to Assyria and obedience to its rulers, vassals gained the protection of one of the most powerful empires in the world.