A History of Babylon From the Foundation of the Monarchy to the Persian Conquest
A History of Babylon From the Foundation of the Monarchy to the Persian Conquest
King, L. W. (Leonard William), 1869-1919
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On it he records his suppression of a revolt of the Tu'manu tribe, who threatened his capital Ribanish, while he was holding festival in the neighbouring town of Baka. But he attacked them with the people who were with him, slew three hundred and fifty of them, and the rest submitted. He also records how he dug out the Sukhi Canal, when it had Fig. 64. Bas-relief op shamash-resh-usur, governor op the lands op sukhi and MARI. The scene represents Shamash-resh-usur standing before the god Adad an...d the goddess Ishtar. The stone was set up in Gabbari-ibni, a city he had founded, and it commemorates his achievements, the one of which he was most proud being the introduction of honey-bees into the land of Sukhi. [After a photo, by Weissbach. ] silted up, and how he planted palm-trees in his palace at Ribanish. But his most notable act, according to his own account, was the introduction of bees into Sukhi, which his improved irrigation of the district doubtless rendered possible. " Bees which collect honey, " he tells us, "which no man had seen since the time of my fathers and forefathers, nor had brought to the land of RELATIONS WITH ASSYRIA 267 Sukhi, I brought down from the mountains of the Khabkha-tribe and I put them in the garden of Gabbari-ibni.
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