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Karen Radner said in 2010 that "In the inscriptions of Sargon we find, for the first time, that islands are used to mark the scope of
Assyria's might—perhaps an indication of growing awareness that the world is more than one landmass enclosed by the sea".
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Jeffers, J. 2018. The royal inscriptions of Ashurbanipal (668–631 BC), Aššur-etel-ilāni (630–627 BC) and Sîn-šarra-iškun (626–612 BC), Kings of Assyria, Part 1 (RINAP 5). Eisenbrauns: Winona Lake, Indiana. pp.
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171:the Louvre
70:Discovered
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268:Lower Sea
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266:and the
167:plakette
129:Akkadian
104:Akkadian
100:Language
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362:Idalion
345:to the
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303:Sargon
296:Hamath
292:Urartu
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230:Marduk
159:Berlin
121:Kition
117:Cyprus
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65:707 BC
43:Height
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349:king
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54:68 cm
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539:ISBN
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