Description: Authentic One Of A kind Superb Museum Quality Terracotta Assyrian Soldier Riding A Horse , c. 713–716 BC. Size: H:5" (12.7cm) x W:1 1/2"(3.8 cm) x D:4" (10.2 cm) Provenance: Private Ca Collection Historical Background: Assyria was originally (in the Middle Bronze Age) a region on the Upper Tigris river, named for its original capital, the ancient city of Assur (Akkadian: Aššur; Hebrew: ???????? Aššûr, Aramaic: A?ûr).
Later, as a nation and empire that came to control all of the Fertile Crescent, Egypt and much of Anatolia, the term "Assyria proper" referred to roughly the northern half of Mesopotamia (the southern half being Babylonia), with Nineveh as its capital.
The Assyrian kings controlled a large kingdom at three different times in history. These are called the Old (20th to 15th c. BC), Middle (15th to 10th c. BC), and Neo-Assyrian (911–612 BC) kingdoms, or periods, of which the last is the most well known and best documented.
The Assyrian homeland was located near a mountainous region, extending along the Tigris as far as the high Gordiaean or Carduchian mountain range of Armenia, sometimes known as the "Mountains of Ashur".
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