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 . No. Ill, Portion of an Assyrian Trumpet Fig. 3. Eunuch playing on the cymbals(Koyunjik).. Musician playing the dulcimtr (Koyunjik). en. PROWESS OF SENNACITEHIB. 461 first of an interregnum at Babylon which continues from thatdate till the accession of Esar-haddon in 680. Interregnain this document—iiv , as they are termed—indicateperiods of extreme distuibance, -vvhen pretender succe
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 . No. Ill, Portion of an Assyrian Trumpet Fig. 3. Eunuch playing on the cymbals(Koyunjik).. Musician playing the dulcimtr (Koyunjik). en. PROWESS OF SENNACITEHIB. 461 first of an interregnum at Babylon which continues from thatdate till the accession of Esar-haddon in 680. Interregnain this document—iiv , 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 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, infirmities of age crept upon him, felt a disinclinationtowards distant expeditions. The military glory of Sennacherib was thus
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