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More than 4,000 years old, it was part of a temple complex dedicated to the god Assur. In antiquity its six million mud bricks were covered with sheets of iron and lead and inlaid with crystals...
According to the Oxford Companion to the Bible, Assur was "built on a sandstone cliff on the west bank of the Tigris about 35 km (24 mi) north of its confluence with the lower Zab River". Archaeology reveals the site of the city was occupied by the middle of the 3rd millennium BC. This was still the Sumerian period, before Assyria emerged.
- 3rd century AD
- Mesopotamia
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Ashur was a name applied to the city, to the country, and to the principal god of the ancient Assyrians. The site was originally occupied about 2500 bce by a tribe that probably had reached the Tigris River either from Syria or from the south.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Aug 28, 2018 · The city of Assur was located on a limestone bluff on the west bank of the Tigris River. According to the archaeological evidence, the site was first occupied around the middle of the 3 rd millennium BC. It has been speculated that the original inhabitants of Assur had arrived there from either Syria or from the south.
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Jan 27, 2017 · Assur (also Ashur, Anshar) is the god of the Assyrians who was elevated from a local deity of the city of Ashur to the supreme god of the Assyrian pantheon. His attributes were drawn from earlier Sumerian and Babylonian deities and so he was, at once, a god of war, wisdom, justice, agriculture, and kingship among others.
- Joshua J. Mark
- Who was Assur?Assur (also known as Ashur) was the supreme god of the Assyrians.
- What did Assur look like?Assur's iconography depicts him as a crown, a crown on a throne, or an archer within a winged disc.
- Why is Assur important?Assur is important because he became the supreme deity of the Assyrian Empire and belief in him was nearly monotheistic. As the empire spread, this...
- When was Assur worshipped?Assur was worshipped from at least c. 2047 BCE until 612 BCE when the Assyrian Empire fell.
In the 24th to 22nd centuries BC, the city was part of the Akkadian Empire as an administrative outpost in northern Mesopotamia, a time later Assyrian kings saw as a golden age. In the final geopolitical stage preceding Assur's independence, the city became a peripheral city within the Sumerian empire of the Third Dynasty of Ur (c. 2112–2004 BC).
Ashur, Ancient religious capital of Assyria. It is located on the Tigris River, 60 mi (97 km) south of Mosul, Iraq. The name Ashur was applied to the city, to Assyria itself, and to Assyria’s principal god. The capital’s site was originally occupied c. 2500 bc.
