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It is a view in perspective of one of the gates of Sargon's city: the walls are eighty-eight feet thick, to which the buttresses add another ten feet; their average height is from about twenty-five to thirty feet, high enough to allow the archway by which the city was entered to remain intact. This is quite an exception.
Yaman fled to Egypt, but his wife and children were captured and, together with the bulk of the inhabitants, were transported into Assyria, while their place was supplied by a number of persons who had been made prisoners in Sargon's eastern wars. An Assyrian governor was set over the town. The submission of Ethiopia followed.
From the references to this district in the letters of Rib-Adda, governor of Byblos, we may infer that it was a level district on the coast, capable of producing a considerable quantity of grain for export, and that it was under Egyptian control at the time of Amenophis IV. Hitherto its position has been conjecturally placed in the Nile Delta, but from Sargon's reference we must probably seek it on the North Syrian or possibly the Cilician coast.
Winckler, Die Keilschrifttexte Sargon's, pp. 52, 124; of Ashurbanabal, the chronicler tells us that he proceeded to Babylonia in the month of Iyyar, but, this not being the proper month, he did not "seize the hands of Bel." See also Winckler, ib. p. xxxvi, note. See pp. 423 and 629 seq. I.e., 'The beginning of the year. See on this subject Karppe's article, Revue Semitique, ii. 146-151.
Of these the most interesting, and the most carefully studied and described are the walls of Sargon's palace at Khorsabad.
At Dur-ilu, a town lying near the Elamitic frontier, there flourished the cult of Ka-di, evidently a god imported into the Assyrian pantheon from Elam or some other eastern district. Sargon's scribes are fond of translating foreign names and words, and they may have done so in this case, and thus added two new deities to the glorious pantheon protecting their royal chief.
Winckler, Die Keilschrifttexte Sargon's Prunkinschrift, ll. 134, 135. Hilprecht, Old Babylonian Inscriptions, i. 1, pl. 33, col. ii. ll. 54-56. VR. 65, col. ii. l. 13. See, e.g., Tiglathpileser I., IR. 16, col. viii. ll. 56, 57; Sennacherib, IR. 47, col. vi. l. 67-71. VR. 64, col. ii. ll. 43-45. Gen. xxviii. 18. Religion of the Semites, p. 364. See Robertson Smith, ib. p. 215.
The Philistine cities, after Sargon's victory over their forces and Egyptian allies at Raphia, in 720, no longer defended their walls, and the Great King's sphere of influence stretched eastward right across the Hamad and southward over north Arabia.
With the addition of this rude cement each brick became a long and narrow wedge and determined the curve of the vault in which it was placed. This vault is not in existence, but its component parts were found among the ruins of Sargon's palace. There is one detail in the decoration of these doorways that should be carefully noted.
Each man had, besides, a sword, and was armored. After the soldiers came Sargon's horses, chariots, and litters, surrounded by servants in white, red, and green garments. After them came five elephants with litters on their backs; on one rode Sargon, on another the Chaldean priest Istubar.
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