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Title: A history of the ancient world, for high schools and academies
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Goodspeed, George Stephen, 1860-1905
Subjects: History, Ancient
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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An Assyrian Relief. Battle Scene, the Storming of a CityTYPICAL ASSYRIAN SCENES The Splendor of Assyria 55 banipal gain the victory. The faithless brother perishedin the flames of his palace, and the other rebels, with theirallies, were fearfully punished. 76. The kings of the family of Sargon were wealthy Assyrianand proud monarchs. Magnificent palaces were built ^JJ^*by them at Nineveh. Sargon founded in connection withhis palace a city capable of holding 80,000 people. The Arcwtect-palace itself filled twenty-five acres and had at least twohundred rooms. The halls were lined with sculptured Sculpture,slabs of alabaster picturing the kings campaigns; ateither side of the great door-ways stood mighty wingedbulls carved in stone. The royal temple-tower with sevenstories, each story faced with tiles of a color different fromthat of the others, rose out of the palace court one hundredand forty feet high. Inscriptions describing the mightydeeds of the kings in war and peace were written

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