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Assur

or A·sur

[ as-er, ah-soor ]

noun

  1. the god of war and supreme national god of Assyria.


Assur

/ ˈæsə; ˈæʃʊə /

noun

  1. the supreme national god of the ancient Assyrians, chiefly a war god, whose symbol was an archer within a winged disc
  2. one of the chief cities of ancient Assyria, on the River Tigris about 100 km (60 miles) downstream from the present-day city of Mosul


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Assur, it would seem, was a shrine long before Assyria went out of Babylon and builded Nineveh.

Le Vritable et assur chemin du ciel en Franois et en Anglois.

Portia.Thyself shalt see the act: For, as thou urgest justice, be assur'd Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desirest.

It is even possible that Assur-bani-pal himself was the sovereign against whom Manasseh rebelled and before whom he was brought.

According to Assur-bani-pal all the western lands were inflamed by the revolt of his brother Samas-sum-ukin.

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