Who is sargon ii

By that time, the most prominent features of the project were finished, although building work still continued elsewhere. Sargon continued the policy of conquest and annexation that had already characterised the reigns of Tiglath-pileser III and Shalmaneser V, but the effort to control areas that were situated ever farther away from the Assyrian heartland began to weigh heavily.

Two provinces in the Zagros Mountains PGP were created in BC but were only held after years of fighting; deportations from the region brought a sizeable Median population to the city of Assur, a fact which may have played a role in the city's fall in BC. The attempt to establish the province of Tabal PGP in central Anatolia in BC was doomed and had to be terminated after a bloody rebellion in the following year - a first in Assyrian imperialism.

However, the annexation of the Philistine kingdom of Ashdod in BC was successful, as were the conquest and integration of the Neo-Hittite states of Gurgum and Kummuhhu Commagene in the same year and in BC respectively. But Sargon's most significant triumph occurred in BC when he finally managed to oust Merodach-baladan from the Babylonian throne, taking the crown of Babylon for himself; while his crown prince Sennacherib officiated in Kalhu, Sargon spent the next three years residing in Babylon, receiving homage and gifts from rulers as far away as Cyprus and Bahrain.

In BC, Sargon returned to Tabal in an attempt to restore the region to its former status as an Assyrian province. Assyrian empire builders. Louvre AO ; photo by Karen Radner. View large image. A view of the citadel of the modern city of Hama in Syria, today an archaeological park. The Assyrian soldiers are shown making away with their spoils of war while a pair of scribes record a seated Assyrian official's account, presumably enumerating the looted objects from the sanctuary which dominates the scene, with dedicatory statues, cauldrons and shields and spears decorating its front.

Detail from P. Botta and E. Flandin, Monument de Ninive , vol. They were buried in a cache in the foundations of the palace. Monuments of this sort are typical for the Neo-Hittite states of Anatolia and northern Syria. He also created a new residence city, Sargonsburg, 15 miles northeast of Nineveh, near modern Khorsabad. The city, which was inaugurated in , took 10 years to build.

It was laid out in a rectangle, and its walls were pierced by eight gates. The great palace and temple, which stood on a foot-high citadel platform, contained spacious halls decorated with stone reliefs. Colossal figures of man-headed bulls stood at the doorways. Early in Sargon was called to the northwest, where he fell in battle against the nomadic Cimmerians. Lie Many of the sculptures from Khorsabad are now in the Louvre in Paris.

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