Slumber Song--After painting bv P. Grot. Johann
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_THE ASSYRIAN REVIVAL AND THE STRUGGLE FOR SYRIA_


_ASSUR-NAZIR-PAL (885-860 B.C.) AND SHALMANESER III. (860-825 B.C.)--THE
KINGDOM OF URARTU AND ITS CONQUERING PRINCES: MENUAS AND ARGISTIS._

_The line of Assyrian kings after Assurirba, and the Babylonian
dynasties: the war between Rammân-nirâri III. and Shamash-mudammiq; his
victories over Babylon; Tukulti-ninip II. (890-885 B.C.)--The empire at
the accession of Assur-nazir-pal: the Assyrian army and the progress of
military tactics; cavalry, military engines; the condition of Assyria's
neighbours, methods of Assyrian conquest._

_The first campaigns of Assur-nazir-pal in Nairi and on the Khabur
(885-882 B.C.): Zamua reduced to an Assyrian province (881 B.C.)--The
fourth campaign in Naîri and the war on the Euphrates (880 B.C.); the
first conquest of BU-Adini--Northern Syria at the opening of the IXth
century: its civilisation, arts, army, and religion--The submission
of the Hittite states and of the Patina: the Assyrians reach the
Mediterranean._

_The empire after the wars of Assur-nazir-pal--Building of the palace