Page 393 - Four Thousand Years Ago by Geoffrey Bibby

inis boundary stone from Babvlonia
bears a portrait of Marduk-nadin-
ahhe, the successor to Nebuchadnez­
zar I of Babylon, and the king who
was overthrown when Tiglathpileser I
of Assyria conquered Babvlonia in
1107 B.C.

This statuette is carved from
amber, the whole figure be­
ing only ten inches high. It
represents one of the kings
of the beginning of the Assyr­
ian empire, at the end of the
Second or the beginning of
the First Millennium. Just as
plate in, top, is normally
identified with Sargon and
plate ix, top, with Hammu­
rabi, this figure is generally
considered to represent As-
surnasirpal II (883 b.c.).