. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . other important cities. He is represented onthe Zinjirli stele standing erect, while at his feet are two kneeling prisoners, whom he isholding by a bridle of cordfastened to metal rings passedthrough their lips; these figuresrepresent Baal of Tyre andTaharqa of Napata, the latterwith the urseus on his a matter of fact, these kingswere safe beyond his reach,one surrounded by the sea, theother above the cataracts, andthe people were well aware thatthey did not form part of theband of prisoners which defiledbefore their eyes;
. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . other important cities. He is represented onthe Zinjirli stele standing erect, while at his feet are two kneeling prisoners, whom he isholding by a bridle of cordfastened to metal rings passedthrough their lips; these figuresrepresent Baal of Tyre andTaharqa of Napata, the latterwith the urseus on his a matter of fact, these kingswere safe beyond his reach,one surrounded by the sea, theother above the cataracts, andthe people were well aware thatthey did not form part of theband of prisoners which defiledbefore their eyes; but theywere accustomed to the vainand extravagant boastings oftheir conquerors, and these veryexaggerations enabled them tounderstand more fully the ex-tent of the victory. Esarhaddonthenceforward styled himselfKing of Egypt, King of the Kings of Egypt, of the Saidand of Kush, so great was his pride at having trampledunderfoot the land of the Delta. And, in fact, Egypt had, 1 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a photograph of the original in theBerlin STELE OF ZINJIKLl. RESULTS OF THE EGYPTIAN CAMPAIGN 159 for a century, been the only one of the ancient Easternstates which had always eluded the grasp of Assyria. TheElamites had endured disastrous defeats, which had costthem some of their provinces; the Urartians had beendriven back into their mountains, and no longer attemptedto emerge from them; Babylon had nearly been annihilatedin her struggles for independence; while the Khati, thePhoenicians, Damascus, and Israel had been absorbed oneafter another in the gradual extension of Ninevite supre-macy. Egypt, although she had had a hand in all theirwars and revolutions, had never herself paid the penalty ofher intrigues, and even when she had sometimes riskedher troops on the battle-fields of Palestine, her disastershad not cost her more than the loss of a certain numberof men: having once retired to the banks of the Nile,no one had dared to follow, and the idea had gainedcr
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