What is Ashurbanipal?
{{Infobox Monarch | name = Ashurbanipal | title = King of [[Assyria]] | native_lang1 = Akkadian | native_lang1_name1 = Aššur-bāni-apli | native_lang2 = Greek | native_lang2_name1 = Sardanapalos | native_lang3 = Latin | native_lang3_name1 = Sardanapalus | image = | caption = Ashurbanipal on a chariot<br />during a royal lion hunt. | reign = 668 – ca. 627 BC | mother = | birth_date = 685 BC | birth_place = | death_date = 627 BC | death_place = |}} [[Image:Assurbanipal op jacht.jpg|thumb|230px|right|Ashurbanipal hunting, a palace [[relief]] from [[Nineveh]].]] [[File:Assurbanipal als hogepriester.jpg|thumb|180px|right|Ashurbanipal as High Priest.]] '''Ashurbanipal''' (685 BC – 627 BC), the son of Esarhaddon, was the last great [[king]] of the Neo-[[Assyria]]n Empire. He established (started) the first [[wikt:organize|organized]] [[library]] in the ancient [[Middle East]], the Library of Ashurbanipal, which survives in part today at [[Nineveh]]. In the Bible he is called Asenappar.<ref>See Ezra Ch4, verse 10.</ref> Roman historian [[Justin (historian)|Justinus]] identified him as Sardanapalus, and describes him as [[effeminate]].<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.forumromanum.org/literature/justin/english/trans1.html |title = Epitome of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus |author = Marcus Junianus Justinus|quote = His successors too, following his example, gave answers to their people through their ministers. The Assyrians, who were afterwards called Syrians, held their empire thirteen hundred years. The last king that reigned over them was Sardanapalus, a man more effeminate than a woman.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231005162505/http://www.forumromanum.org/literature/justin/english/trans1.html|archive-date=5 October 2023|url-status=unfit}}</ref> == References == {{Reflist}} {{bio-stub}} [[Category:Mesopotamian people]] [[Category:685 BC births]] [[Category:627 BC deaths]]