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Beyond that line began a sphere of influence which we cannot hope to define, but may guess to have extended over Cappadocia, Lycaonia and the southern part of Phrygia. Southward, all Syria was Sargon's, most of it by direct occupation, and the rest in virtue of acknowledged overlordship and payment of tribute. Even the seven princes of Cyprus made such submission.
VR. 33, col. v. l. 40. Winckler, Die Keilschrifttexte Sargon's, p. 172 and p. xxvi, note. For examples, see the Assyrian contract tablets translated by Peiser, Keils Bibl. iv. 98 and passim. See the passage Shalmanaser obelisk, ll. 174, 175, and Peiser's comment, Keils Bibl. iv. 106, note. Burton, A Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, iii. chapter vii. See above, p. 686.
As for circular and polygonal rooms, none have been found in Assyria, but a few square ones have been disinterred. On the principal façade of Sargon's palace there are two of a fair size, some forty-eight feet each way. Thomas did not believe that a barrel vault was used in these apartments; the span would have been too great.
The vulture is commonly represented flying in the air, in attendance upon the march and the battle sometimes devouring, as he flies, the entrails of one of Assyria's enemies. He is evidently sought as food. One appears, in a sculpture of Sargon's. in the act of climbing the stein of a tree, like the nut-hatch or the woodpecker.
Ashurnasirbal's father bears the name Tukulti-Ninib. See above, pp. 151, 206. One of the gates of Sargon's palace is called after Nin-ib. See above, p. 57. See above, pp. 92-94. Kosmologie, pp. 457-475. He is also called the offspring of a goddess, Ku-tu-shar, but this reference is not clear. See Jensen, Kosmologie, p. 468, note 5. In a religious text he is addressed as 'holy, holy, holy.
Since Sargon's triumphant raids, the Great King's writ had run gradually less and less far into Media; and by his retaliatory invasions of Elam, which Sennacherib had provoked, Ashurbanipal not only exhausted his military resources, but weakened a power which had served to check more dangerous foes.
It is true that the Khorsabad relief whence we copy this peculiar arrangement deals with the capture of an Armenian city, Mousasir, called in the narrative of Sargon's conquests "the dwelling of the god Haldia," whose temple must be here figured by the sculptor.
The consolidation of Sargon's empire in the west, therefore, was needful before the invasion of the country of Magan could take place, and the invasion accordingly was reserved for Naram-Sin to make. The father had prepared the way; the son obtained the great prize the source of the copper that was used in the ancient world.
Such an effect was produced on the surrounding nations by the success of this inroad, that their princes hastened to propitiate Sargon's favor by sending embassies, and excepting the position of Assyrian tributaries.
Some doubts were formerly cast upon these traditions inasmuch as they were found in a text containing omens or forecasts, but these doubts were removed by the discovery of contemporary documents by which the later traditions were confirmed. Sargon's conquest of Elam, for instance, was proved to be historical by a reference to the event in a date-formula upon tablets belonging to his reign.
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