Assur
Americannoun
noun
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the supreme national god of the ancient Assyrians, chiefly a war god, whose symbol was an archer within a winged disc
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one of the chief cities of ancient Assyria, on the River Tigris about 100 km (60 miles) downstream from the present-day city of Mosul
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The $1.7 million cuneiform clay tablet was found in 1853 as part of a 12-tablet collection in the rubble of the library of Assyrian King Assur Banipal.
From Washington Times • Sep. 23, 2021
Scholars discovered it in 1853, when a 12-tablet version was found in the ruins of the library of an Assyrian king, Assur Banipal, in northern Iraq.
From BBC • Sep. 23, 2021
Ildar Abdrazakov was forceful as the sneering Assur, but his tone grew gray and woolly in its depths, when it should be its richest.
From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2018
Students are each assigned to a Babylonian city‐state—Eshnunna, Assur, Ur and Mari—that has limited resources.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2016
Almost the only difference observable in the religion of the two kingdoms was that whereas Bel-Merodach was the supreme god of Babylon, Assur, the impersonation of the old capital, was the supreme god of Assyria.
From A Primer of Assyriology by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
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