Assurbanipal | |
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Koning van Assirië | |
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Assurbanipal op ’n jagtog, ’n reliëf uit Nineve. | |
Bewind | 668 – c. 627 v.C. |
Volle naam | Aššur-bāni-apli (Akkadies) |
Gebore | 685 v.C. |
Gesterf | 627 v.C. |
Voorganger | Esarhaddon |
Opvolger | Ashur-etil-ilani |
Vader | Esarhaddon |
Assurbanipal of Asjsjoerbanipal (Akkadies: Aššur-bāni-apli, "Assur is die skepper van ’n erfgenaam"; 668 – c. 627 v.C.)[1] was ’n koning van Assirië. Hy was die seun van Esarhaddon en die laaste sterk heerser van die Nieu-Assiriese Ryk.[1] Hy is bekend vir sy versameling van ’n groot hoeveelheid wigskrifdokumente vir sy koninklike paleis by Nineve.[2] Die versameling, bekend as die Biblioteek van Assurbanipal, is nou in die Britse Museum.
In die Bybelboek Esra word hy Asenappar genoem en die Romeinse historikus Justinus identifiseer hom as Sardanapalus.[3]
His successors too, following his example, gave answers to their people through their ministers. The Assyrians, who were afterwards called Syrians, held their empire thirteen hundred years. The last king that reigned over them was Sardanapalus, a man more effeminate than a woman.