One of *those* topics.
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Posted on 04/22/2019 7:06:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
In "A New Historical Inscription of Sargon II from Karkemish," published in the Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Gianni Marchesi translates a recently discovered inscription of the Assyrian King Sargon II found at the ruins of the ancient city of Karkemish. The inscription, which dates to around 713 B.C., details Sargon's conquest, occupation, and reorganization of Karkemish, including his rebuilding the city with ritual ceremonies usually reserved for royal palaces in capital cities. The text implies that Sargon may have been planning to make Karkemish a western capital of Assyria, from which he could administer and control his empire's western territories...
In the inscription, Sargon tells of the "betrayal" of Pirisi, the Hittite King of Karkemish who exchanged hostile words about Assyria with its enemy, King Midas of Phrygia. Sargon invades Karkemish, deports Pisiri and his supporters, destroys his palace, seizes his riches as booty and incorporates Pisiri's army into his own. He resettles the city with Assyrians. Having previously blocked the water supply to Karkemish, the meadows "let go fallow, like a wasteland," Marchesi translates, he now reactivates the irrigation system, planting orchards and botanical gardens. "I made the scent of the city sweeter than the scent of a cedar forest."
...This vision of Karkemish was short-lived, however. Though much care was taken to detail the city's rise in these texts, the city is not mentioned in any known inscriptions of Sargon's successors.
"The unthinkable, ominous death of Sargon on the battlefield in Tabal probably prevented this project from being accomplished, and negatively marked the destiny of Karkemish itself, which no longer attracted the interest of Assyrian kings who followed after him," Marchesi writes.
(Excerpt) Read more at eurekalert.org ...
Midas, is even more than his father an object of legendary motifs -- whatever he touched turned to gold, he had the ears of an ass -- yet he was a historical figure as well who, according to the chronicle of Hieronymus, reigned from -742 to -696. Soon the Phrygians came into conflict with the Assyrians who opposed the penetration of newcomers into central Asia Minor; and Sargon II (-726 to -705), the conqueror of Samaria and of the Israelite tribes, moved westward to stop the penetration of the Phrygians. -- The Dark Age Of Greece: The Allies of Priam by Immanuel Velikovsky
Under Midas, the son of Gordias, the Phrygian kingdom reached the peak of its power; while Midas, even more than his father, was an object of legendary motifs -- whatever he touched turned to gold, he had the ears of an ass -- he was also a historical person, and is attested in contemporary documents. He reigned, according to the chronicle of Hieronymus, preserved by Eusebius, from -742 to -696; his prosperity and growing power involved him in international intrigue: he conspired with the rebellious king of Carchemish against Sargon II of Assyria (-722 to -705), and the curbing of Midas was the aim of Sargon's campaign of the year -715. But eastern Anatolia was not yet pacified, and continuing disturbances brought Sargon several more times to the defense of his northeastern frontier; he finally met his death there in battle in -705. -- The Trojans and their Allies by Jan Sammer
The Kadesh of the battle, described and illustrated by Ramses II was Carchemish. Details of this identification are found in the volume dealing with Ramses II and Nebuchadnezzar. There I show that Tell Nebi -- Mend on the Orontes was not the Kadesh of the battle, neither was the Orontes the (p)nrt of the battle. In the sections "The Fortress of Carchemish" , "The Plan of the Battle" , and "Carchemish the Sacred City" , I give an exhaustive proof, historical, topographical, and geographical to the thesis that Carchemish (the City of Chemosh) was the Kadesh of the battle. The identification of (p)r-n-t with the Euphrates and the identification of Baw as el-Bab and Aranimi as Arima of todaym and Mw (water) of Sdt as the Sadjur, all on the way from Aleppo to Carchemish, give additional support to my identification. The history of Carchemish and the archaeological difficulties resulting from the wrong chronology are discussed by me in the same volume of Ages in Chaos (dealing with Ramses II and His Time). -- Carchemish by Immanuel Velikovsky
The name Kadesh was given to many different places. Jerusalem was called Kadesh, as was Carchemish on the Orontes; there was a Kadesh in Galilee, Kadesh Naphtali, mentioned a few times in the Scriptures. The word means "sanctuary" and every venerated place was called Kadesh. -- The "Great and Terrible Wilderness" by Immanuel Velikovsky
Ramses II in describing the events preceding and following the battle of Kadesh told that when he with the division of Amon was already northwest of Kadesh, the division of Re that followed him crossed Msdt of the river Nrt... In the section dealing with the position of Kadesh of the battle, it is shown that Kadesh was Carchemish; in the section dealing with the river (P)rnt it is shown that it was Prat, or Euphrates, and not Orontes. Baw is today's el-Bab on the road from Aleppo to Carchemish, Aranami or Aranima is Arima of today on the same road, north of el-Bab. Mw-Sdt is water (mw) of Sadjur, the confluent of the Euphrates that must be crossed on the same road before Carchemish is reached. -- Baw and Arinama and Mw-Sdt by Immanuel Velikovsky
Theses for the Reconstruction of Ancient History by Immanuel Velikovsky (theses 205, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221)
You know, this Sargon guy sounds like a regular Joe.
You could sit down with him and have a beer and talk sports.
His idea of a big time was to have dip with his chips. Probably Ranch.
Drove a Ford pickup and listened to Country Western music.
Had a dog named Duke and liked to go fishing.
Just a regular guy.
T E Lawrence with Leonard Woolley, the archaeological director, with a Hittite slab on the
excavation site at Carchemish near Aleppo before the First World War. ( Wikimedia)
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Archaeologists Reveal Secrets Found in Ancient War-Torn City of Karkemish, Turkey
Its a shame that these journals don’t include maps with their articles.
LOL
I can't guarantee that they didn't, I'm strugglin' with the old hardware / OS here.
:^) The postcards back then led to lots of postal worker disabilities and injuries.
[snip]This is how Sargon II described the conquest of Samaria:At the beginning of my royal rule, I _ _ _ the town of the Samaritans I besieged, conquered. _ _ _ for the god _ _ _ who let me achieve this my triumph _ _ _ I led away as prisoners 27,290 inhabitants of it and equipped from among them soldiers to man 50 chariots of my royal corps _ _ _ .In earlier Assyrian conquests by Tiglath-Pileser III and Shalmaneser V, the people of the land had already been carried into exile; those removed by Sargon were the last of Israel—if we do not count those few who, still in time, went over to Judah. Hoshea was among those deported.
The account of the Second Book of Kings is: “In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.”
Sargon, referring to another of his campaigns (against Babylon) wrote: “I bespatted his people with the venom of death.” Of his campaign against Elam he wrote: “Into all their cities I cast gloom and turned all their provinces into deserted mounds.” He did likewise to Israel and to Israel’s land.
The king of Assyria brought throngs of settlers from Babylon, Cuthah, Hamath, Ava, and Sepharvaim and placed them in the city of Samaria. “The town I rebuilt better than it was before and settled therein peoples from countries which I myself had conquered.”
...It seems that in one of the earliest waves of the eighth-century migrations the Phrygians moved from Thrace over the Hellespont into Asia Minor. The tradition is that the first king in their new domicile was Gordias, and the story of his selecting the site for his capital Gordion is a well-known legend. Soon he came into conflict with the Assyrians who opposed the penetration of newcomers into central Asia Minor, and Sargon II moved westward to stop the penetration of the Phrygians, by now ruled by Gordias’ son Midas.
In the decades that followed the Scythians descended from the steppes of Russia and moved along the Caspican coast. The Scythians at that time worshipped Mars, and a sword as his sign, for a while leaving their ancient worship of Saturn in abeyance—they were called Umman-Manda, or People of Saturn, in the Akkadian and so-called “Hittite” literary texts. The Scythians in their migration displaced the nomadic Cimmerians, pushing them towards the south and west. The Assyrian defenses withstood the Cimmerian onslaught, but at a heavy cost, which included the death of Sargon in battle in -702. [/snip] -- The Assyrian Conquest: The End of Samaria by Immanuel Velikovsky
[snip]According to this reconstruction, Haremhab began his career under the last kings of the Libyan Dynasty. We get a first glimpse of him in the tomb of the prince Sheshonk, son of Osorkon II and his wife Karoma. The prince, named as successor to his father, died young, still during his father's reign, and never assumed the royal diadem. The king built for him a funerary chamber in Memphis, where the prince had served in his lifetime as the high priest of Ptah. The excavations of Samaria, discussed above, revealed that the Libyan king Osorkon II was not a contemporary of Ahab, as is usually asserted, but reigned after the time of Jeroboam II -- i.e., after ca. -744, which marks the death of Jeroboam II, but before the destruction of Samaria by the Assyrians in -722.
The tomb was discovered in 1942, and its clearance and publication were entrusted to Ahmad Badawi. At the entrance to the tomb, on the lintel of the doorway, Badawi found an incised relief showing Haremhab kneeling in front of a talbe bedecked with offerings; behind Harmhab can be seen the deceased prince, also in a kneeling position. Haremhab's cartouche is somewhat damaged; a deliberate attempt had been made to erase it. But from what remains Badawi could identify the figure in front of the crown prince as that of Haremhab.
In the accepted scheme of history Haremhab is supposed to have reigned some six hundred years before the funeral chamber for Prince Shoshenk, son of Osorkon II, was built...
In this reconstruction Haremhab and Tirhaka, the Ethiopian, are contemporaries; in the conventional version of history they are separated by more than six centuries, Haremhab being dated to the late fourteenth and Tirhaka to the early seventh. A certain scene, carved on one of the walls of a small Ethiopian temple at Karnak, shows them together. The scene proves not only the contemporaneity of Haremhab and Tirhaka, but also permits to establish a short period in their relations from which it dates...
Of the hundreds of rock-cut tombs crowding the Theban necropolis, the Valley of the Kings, one bearing the name of Petamenophis, a high official of the Ethiopian time, early attracted the attention of Egyptologists... In his inscriptions he describes himself as "Sealbearer and Sole Beloved Friend, Lector and Scribe of the Records in the Sight of the King, Petamenophis." The king is not named, but his identity is revealed by an inscription, also reproduced by Lepsius, on a wall in the northern part of the great outer courtyard. Though much damaged in the course of time it contains two names, still clearly legible: Petamenophis, and next to it a cartouche of King Haremhab...
A legal document in hieroglyphics composed under Ramses II refers to a contract concluded under Haremhab, and gives, without any further amplification, the "fifty-ninth year."
Haremhab did not rule Egypt anywhere that long...
In the light of the understanding here presented of the true time and role of Haremhab, the thought must come that the "fifty-ninth year" refers to an Assyrian era. On February 26, -747 started the era of Nabonassar; this era was still in use in the second Christian century when Claudius Ptolemy, the Alexandrian scholar, wrote his astronomical treatises.
The year 59 in the era of Nabonassar is the year 689 or 688 before the present era. About this time Tirhaka came from Ethiopia and occupied Egypt. This leads us to the conclusion that the document in question was written at the very end of Haremhab's reign, just before he was expelled by the Ethiopian king and fled by sea. A few months later Sennacherib embarked on his second campaign against Judah and Egypt.[/snip] -- The Assyrian Conquest: Haremhab's Contemporaries by Immanuel Velikovsky
It’s such a shame that the Near East and Middle East are such a mess. I’d love to visit ancient sites in that part of the world.
It's likely that the only time the mideast hasn't been a mess has been during foreign rule, and even then one would have to duck a lot. Still would like a time machine though.
Map of the Roman Empire - Carchemish [Jerablus; Djerabis; Carablus; Karkamis]
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