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Assur
[ as-er, ah-soor ]
noun
- the god of war and supreme national god of Assyria.
Assur
/ ˈæsə; ˈæʃʊə /
noun
- the supreme national god of the ancient Assyrians, chiefly a war god, whose symbol was an archer within a winged disc
- 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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