Tukulti-Ninurta II

king of Assyria

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In history of Mesopotamia: Assyria and Babylonia until Ashurnasirpal II
Tukulti-Ninurta II (c. 890–884), the son of Adad-nirari II, preferred Nineveh to Ashur. He fought campaigns in southern Armenia. He was portrayed on stelae in blue and yellow enamel in the late Hittite style, showing him under a winged sun—a theme adopted from Egyptian art.…
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