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Sargon I: Quick Facts

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Facts

Flourished c.1875 BCE - c.1825 BCE
Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal
Ashurbanipal
king of Assyria
Bas-relief depicting the founding Assyrian king of Nineveh, Sennacherib
Sennacherib
king of Assyria
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Tiglath-pileser III
king of Assyria
Sargon II
Sargon II
king of Assyria
Ashurnasirpal II
Ashurnasirpal II
king of Assyria
Esarhaddon, detail of a tablet from Zincirli Hüyük, in Turkey; in the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin
Esarhaddon
king of Assyria
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Shalmaneser III
king of Assyria
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Tiglath-pileser I
king of Assyria
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Ashur-uballit I
king of Assyria
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Shalmaneser I
king of Assyria
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Shalmaneser V
king of Assyria and Babylon
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Tukulti-Ninurta I
king of Assyria
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Ashurnasirpal I
king of Assyria
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Tiglath-pileser II
king of Assyria
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Hormuzd Rassam
Assyriologist
Layard, drawing by G.F. Watts; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Austen Henry Layard
British archaeologist
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Shamash-shum-ukin
crown prince of Babylonia

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