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Title: The seven great monarchies of the ancient eastern world: or, The history, geography and antiquities of Chaldæa, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, and Sassanian or New Persian empire
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Rawlinson, George, 1812-1902
Subjects: Mauritius Export Development and Investment Authority History, Ancient Assyria -- History Babylonia -- History Parthia -- History Iran -- History
Publisher: New York : J. W. Lovell company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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No. Ill, Portion of an Assyrian Trumpet Fig. 3. Eunuch playing on the cymbals(Koyunjik).
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Musician playing the dulcimtr (Koyunjik). en. ix.l PROWESS OF SENNACITEHIB. 461 first of an interregnum at Babylon which continues from thatdate till the accession of Esar-haddon in B.C. 680. Interregnain this document—iiv ajiaciD.evla, as they are termed—indicateperiods of extreme distuibance, -vvhen pretender succeeded topretender, or when the country was split up into a number ofpetty kingdoms. The Assyrian yoke, in either case, musthave been rejected; and Babylonia must have succeeded atthis time in maintaining, for the space of eight years, a sepa-rate and independent existence, albeit troubled and precarious.The fact that she continued free so long, while she againsuccumbed at the very commencement of the reign of Esfvr-haddon, may lead us to suspect that she owed this sj)ell of lib-erty to the increasing years of the Assyrian monarcli, who, a.sthe infirmities of age crept upon him, felt a disinclinationtowards distant expeditions. The military glory of Sennacherib was thus

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