Chapter 54: The Assyrians in Egypt

Question 1

Bit-Dakkuri

Answer 1

This was the brother-tribe to the Bit-Yakin of Merodach-baladan.

Question 2

Cimmerians/Gimirrai

Answer 2

They were nomadic tribes who had long roamed the shores of the Caspian Sea, who gathered together above the tribes of the Medes and Persians.

Question 3

Gyges

Answer 3

He was king of the Lydians, with the plain to the east destroyed, he became know as the strongest power in all of Asia Minor.

Question 4

facade monument

Answer 4

They are slabs of stone jutting up into the air, one side carved into the likeness of a wall, with a sculpted door that can never be opened.

Question 5

Nabu-zer-ketti-lisher

Answer 5

He is the son of Merodach-baladan, after Sennacherib died, he started a Chaldean rebellion. He had been ruling over Bit-Yakin.

Question 6

Prism

Answer 6

It is a stone pillar with six to ten sides.

Question 7

Psammetichus

Answer 7

He was the son of Necho, he was brought back from Assyria and installed in the eastern city of Athribis, across from his father’s city.

Question 8

Rusas II

Answer 8

He is the grandson of Rusas I, he was beginning to rebuild his army in Urartu.

Question 9

Scythians

Answer 9

They were a group of nomads filtering down from the Caucasus Mountains, north of the Black Sea.

Question 10

Shamash-shum-ukin

Answer 10

He was chosen by Esarhaddon to be the younger prince of Babylon, a sovereign ruler under his older brother’s supervision.

Question 11

Tantamani

Answer 11

He was the cousin of Tirhakah, and was chosen to be his heir. He inherited an empty title, the kingship of a land firmly under Assyrian contorl.

Question 12

Teushpa

Answer 12

He was the Cimmerian king, he died in battle against Esarhaddon and his army.

Question 13

Tirhakah

Answer 13

He was the Nubian prince that fought Sennacherib to a draw, and was now king. He had waited a long time for the throne.