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Assurbanipal

American  
[ah-soor-bah-nee-pahl] / ˌɑ sʊərˈbɑ niˌpɑl /

noun

  1. Ashurbanipal.


Assurbanipal British  
/ ˌæsʊəˈbɑːnɪˌpæl /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of Ashurbanipal

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According to the nameless artists whose duty it was to record his glory, Assurbanipal was as fierce as he was fearless.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sargon, Sennacherib, Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal against the chiefs of the Medes, it cannot be denied that these campaigns took place.

From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Duncker, Max

Accounts of the great flood are also to be seen on tablets, copied from old Babylonian originals, which have been discovered in the ruins of the palace of Assurbanipal, king of Assyria.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max

Assurbanipal, king of Assyria, one of the kings known to the Greeks by the name of Sardanapalus, reigned at Nineveh about B.C.

From The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science by Dawson, John William

According to them Gyges and Ardys were contemporaries of Assurbanipal, who reigns from 668 to 626 B.C.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max