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Old Assyrian refers to the Old Assyrian period of the Ancient Near East, ca. 20th to 16th centuries BC (the Middle Bronze Age)
- the Old Assyrian Empire, see Old Assyrian Empire
- the Old Assyrian language, see Akkadian language
- Old Assyrian cuneiform, see Cuneiform script
Usage examples of "old assyrian".
It included all Asia Minor and Syria, all the old Assyrian and Babylonian empires, Egypt, the Caucasus and Caspian regions, Media, Persia, and it extended into India as far as the Indus.
He was, in a sense, a kind of dinosaur, the last of the old Assyrian-style conquerors who thought in terms of mass-murder and torture.
Although the figures tend to resemble one another-each is shown in profile, according to the old Assyrian style-one can still identify the features of the various Great Kings as well as those of certain of their close companions.
One god or another had smiled on the ambitions of Cyrus, and of Nebuchadnezzar before him, and of the old Assyrian kings before that.
He threw back his head, and there he stood in the golden glow with all his old Assyrian luxuriance of beard, all his native insolence of drooping eyelids and intolerant eyes.
I had two brothers who were still sun-worshippers, two Nestorians from the old Assyrian world.