Re: CHAT: reign names

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From: Rodlox <Rodlox@...>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 11:02 PM
Subject: Re: Re: CHAT: reign names


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> > There is indeed a Sargon I of Assyria, but he belongs to a period when
> > Assyria was a vassal of Babylon, and it is not even known
> > how long he reigned; it was around the time of Hamurabi. I was
> > given to understand (and this may be wrong) that by the time of Sargon
II
> > of Assyria, over a thousand years later, it was the first Sargon that
> > was really salient, and that Sargon II conscientiously took that throne
> > name to echo the Great One's martial glory.  But I suppose the question
> > is ambiguous;  I'm not even sure the Assyrians used regnal numbers.
>
>  oh, it gets better.  :)
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>  the Ancient Egyptians, it turns out, didn't start with Menes, or even
> Narmer.  they began with the Scorpion King  (okay, actually "King
> Scorpion")...and they had *two* of them!
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