Talk:Dur-Sharrukin

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In what way does "16280 Assyrian units" correspond to "the numerical value of Sargon's name"? 195.153.200.101 18:22, 20 March 2006 (UTC)


 * The cuneiform signs used for writing his name also had a numerical value, in the same way as Roman letters are used for numbers, like MDCCCLXXXVIII "1888". Units must refer to the cubit.--JFK 16:31, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Khorsabad redirect
The article Khorsabad is now redirected to Dur-Sharrukin. The short text from the Khorsabad article, i.e. the geographical location, was integrated into the Dur-Sharrukin article. --JFK 16:31, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * may i ask why? khorsabad and dur-sharrukin are not the same thing. the latter is only a ruin. i guess we should redirect mexico city to tenochtitlan as well? granted, khorsabad's claim to fame is dur-sharrukin, but we could add more about the village. supine 21:45, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

proposed additions
The following could be worked into this. some reduncy may need to be eliminated. If some else want to work it in that is fine or if there are any sugestions I'll take them into consideration when I do it. The source is a little unorganized about Bottas attempt to move statues but I'll clear that up for anyone who wants to check it. I could add a little more about history too from this source: Time Life Lost Civilizations series: Mesopotamia: The Mighty Kings.

Sargon II ruled from 722-705 BCE  The Palace of Sargon the second in Khorsabad includes statues weighing 10-40 tons. Sargon supposedly lost at least one of these in the river.  Sargon II brought the Assyrian empire to the height of it's power before he was killed in 705 BCE while putting down an uprising at Tabal in the Taurus mountains.  Paul Emile Botta and Victor Place attempted to move 2 additional 30 ton colossi to Paris from Khorsabad by in 1853. In order to facilitate their shipment to Paris they were sawed in pieces and they still ran into problems. One of them fell into the river into the Tigris never to be retrieved. The other made it to Paris. They made a plaster replica to replace the lost one in 1957. I don't know how much work a stone one would have been but aparentlly they thought it was to much.

In 1928 Eward Chiera unearthed a colossal Bull estimated to weigh 40 tons In Khorsabad. This was split into three large fragments. the torso alone weighed about 20 tons. this was shipped to Chicago. It was to big to fit through the tunnels and had to be rerouted from New York to Chicago via New Orleans.

Zacherystaylor (talk) 09:34, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

If anyone is interested in checking the reference for relocating the bulls the part about Botta is a little unorganized in the book but it is all there. on page 112 they talk about dificulties he had but don't give details. on page 120 after talking about other bulls they provide missing details from page 112. I had to flip back and forth myself to clear up confusion but it is about the same bull.

Zacherystaylor (talk) 07:08, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Arch redo
I completely redid the archaeology section, and made some modest improvement in the article in general. I see now that there is an excellent article in the French wikipedia on the temples found at Du-Sharrukin

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temples_de_Dur-Sharrukin

and hopefully someday, someone who's French is better will import the article or add the material to the main page.Ploversegg (talk) 23:19, 24 November 2009 (UTC)ploversegg

Dur-Šharru-ukin
Where exactly does this "Dur-Šharru-ukin" on the head of the template come from? There is no reference whatsoever, it is not once mentioned in the article and it is unclear in which language this particular form should supposedly be. It has definitely nothing to do with Akkadian or Assyrian where the root šar does not have anything like that "h". I admit I do not speak Arabic nor Syriac, so does it come from either of those? Anyway, it is just a very bad style in an encyclopedia to have one version of a name as the name of the article, another in the template, and - not here, but quite often - a third one in the beginning of the lead. --Oop (talk) 13:52, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm sure it's just a typological error -- the Akkadian can be rendered "Šarru" or "Sharru," I imagine someone was changing from one to the other and forgot to remove either the haček or the h. The name of the king, while Anglicized as "Sargon" based on Biblical spellings in the Hebrew alphabet, was in Akkadian "Šarru-ukīn."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.60.166.95 (talk) 22:20, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

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