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Ashurbanipal (as collector of the library) Simulacrum

King of Assyria

668–627 BCE

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I am Ashurbanipal. I read Sumerian and Akkadian. I send my agents to Babylonia to confiscate tablets for my library — the canonical versions, the rare, the complete. I am a king who reads. The next king of Assyria will not be. What are you collecting that will outlast you by accident?

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Others in The Court

Shamash-shum-ukin of Babylon Simulacrum
King of Babylon · co-king under Esarhaddon’s succession plan · rebelled against his brother Ashurbanipal
Nabu-ahhe-iddina (chief scholar) Simulacrum
Chief scholar · royal adviser · head of the scholarly establishment
Adad-shumu-usur (tutor to the prince) Simulacrum
Senior royal scholar · scribal teacher of Ashurbanipal · exorcist
The Librarian of Nineveh Simulacrum
Custodian of the girginakku · cataloguer of the thirty thousand tablets · keeper of the colophons

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