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So Sargon became an agriculturist and gardener like his adopted father, till the goddess Istar beheld and loved him, and eventually gave him his kingdom and crown. Whatever may have been the real history of Sargon's rise to power, certain it is that he showed himself worthy of it.
This sacerdotal caste were the most perfect in their astral conceptions and complete in their symbolic system of recording, and if the great work found in King Sargon's library in seventy tablets is ever translated, it will prove of priceless value to the student of these weird, but sublime, astrological mysteries.
We can hardly imagine an Assyrian palace without those series of bas-reliefs which now line the walls of our museums much in the same fashion as they covered those of Sargon's and Sennacherib's palaces, and yet it is unlikely that in the beginning the Assyrian palaces had these carved walls.
Sargon's successor, Sennacherib, had serious trouble with the Ionians only a few years later, as has been learned from the comparison of a royal record of his, only recently recovered and read, with some statements made probably in the first place by the Babylonian historian, Berossus, but preserved to us in a chronicle of much later date, not hitherto much heeded.
The marshes of its south-west, the tropical plains of the centre and the mountains on the east, made it a difficult land for the northern Semites to conquer and hold. Sargon had been wise enough to let it be. Neither so prudent nor so fortunate would be his son and successors. Such was the empire inherited by Sargon's son, Sennacherib.
More than one has been found in Syria and Cyprus which go back to the age of Sargon and Naram-Sin, while there are numerous others which are more or less barbarous attempts on the part of the natives to imitate the Babylonian originals. But the imitations prove that with the fall of Sargon's empire the use of seal-cylinders in Syria, and consequently of documents for sealing, did not disappear.
Then came his last campaign against Northern Mesopotamia, from which he returned with abundant prisoners and spoil. Sargon's son and successor was Naram-Sin, "the beloved of the Moon-god," who continued the conquests of his father. His second campaign was against the land of Magan, the name under which Midian and the Sinaitic peninsula were known to the Babylonians.
Peters informs me that from his observations at Telloh, he questions whether the building in question represents a zikkurat at all, though, as we know from other sources, a zikkurat existed there in the days of Gudea. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, xviii. Of Sargon's zikkurat at Khorsabad, also, only four stories have been found. E.g. Perrot and Chiplez, ib. p. 128.
Fill this space with the necessary bricks, and a section of wall would be restored identical in bond with that below the battlements, with the one exception that the highest block of the battlement, being only one brick wide, is formed by laying three whole bricks one upon the other. The crenellations we have been describing are those upon the retaining walls of Sargon's palace at Khorsabad.
Peters ib. pp. 374, 375. See p. 536. E.g., Gen. xxxi. 19. See the specimens and descriptions in Découvertes en Chaldée, pl. 44 and p. 234. Ashurnasirbal, IR. 25, col. iii. ll. 91, 92. Winckler, Die Keilschrifttexte Sargon's Prunkinschrift, ll. 141-143. VR. 60, col. ii. ll. 11-16. See pp. 373-383. See above, p. 658.
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