biography
| name: |
Assurbanipal or Ashurbanipal
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pronunciation:
[asoorbanipal]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (7th-c BC)
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| biography:
| King of Assyria (668–627 BC), the last of the great Assyrian kings, the son of Esarhaddon and grandson of Sennacherib. A patron of the arts, he founded at Nineveh the first systematically gathered and organized library in the Middle East, containing a vast number of texts on numerous subjects copied from temple libraries throughout his empire. |
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