The Assyrian inscription (the so-called Black Obelisk now in the British Museum), which records the submission of the petty kings, gives an interesting representation of the humble Israelite emissaries with their long fringed robes and strongly marked physiognomy (see Costume, fig.
The part played by Egypt proper in the ensuing anti-Assyrian combinations is not clearly known; with a number of petty dynasts fomenting discontent and revolt, there was an absence -of cohesion in that ancient empire previous to the rise of the Ethiopian dynasty.
Schultens (Vita Sal., Index geogr.) cites Tatmur as a variant of the Arabic name; this might mean abounding in palms (from the root tamar); otherwise Tadmor may have been originally an Assyrian name.
South of Mosul, at which point navigation is blocked by two ancient dams, erected, apparently, to control the river for the Assyrian city of Calah, the ruins of which are called Nimrud by the natives after these dams, which they conceive to be the work of that mythical hero.
Assyrian הגייה עם משמעויות, מילים נרדפות, הפכים, תרגומים, משפטים ועוד