Sargon II
Americannoun
noun
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It was the only factory in L.A. inspired by the abandoned palace of King Sargon II, parts of which are at the Louvre.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2023
Assyrian King Sargon II wound a 6-ft. ramp around his 143-ft-tall Ziggurat at Khorsabad back in 706 B.C.
From Time Magazine Archive
He it was who discovered and succeeded in bringing to Chicago one of the magnificent, 40-ton stone bulls of King Sargon II.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Palace of Sargon II above Nineveh covered 25 acres and included more than 200 rooms and courtyards, including a brilliantly painted throne room, harem, service quarters, and guard room.
From "The Annotated Mona Lisa" by Carol Strickland and John Boswell
Meanwhile M. Place was busily occupied with the French excavations at Khorsabad, a mound which contained the ruins of the great palace of Sargon II, and had no time to open up excavations at Kuyûnjik.
From The Babylonian Story of the Deluge as Told by Assyrian Tablets from Nineveh by Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir
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