Sennacherib ( pronounced ; Akkadian: Sîn-ahhī-erība " Sîn has replaced ( lost ) brothers for me ") was the son of Sargon II, whom he succeeded on the throne of Assyria ( 705 – 681 BC ).

Sargon claims to have lost only one charioteer, two horsemen and three couriers on this occasion.

With the Akkadian conquest Lagash lost its independence, its ruler or ensi becoming a vassal of Sargon of Akkad and his successors ; but Lagash continued to be a city of much importance and above all, a centre of artistic development.

Images of Sargon were erected on the shores of the Mediterranean, in token of his victories, and cities and palaces were built at home with the spoils of the conquered lands.

One strategy adopted by both Sargon and Naram-Sin, to maintain control of the country, was to install their daughters, Enheduanna and Emmenanna respectively, as high priestess to Sin, the Akkadian version of the Sumerian moon deity, Nanna, at Ur, in the extreme south of Sumer ; to install sons as provincial ensi governors in strategic locations ; and to marry their daughters to rulers of peripheral parts of the Empire ( Urkesh and Marhashe ).

Enheduanna, the " wife ( Sumerian " dam " = high priestess ) of Nanna Sumerian moon god and daughter of Sargon " of the temple of Sin at Ur, who lived ca.

The Arabs whom he employed in these excavations, to their great surprise, came upon the ruins of a building at the mound of Khorsabad, which, on further exploration, turned out to be the royal palace of Sargon II, which was largely explored for sculptures and other precious relics.

Bas-relief from the king Sargon II's palace at Dur Sharrukin in Assyria ( now Khorsabad in Iraq ), c. 713 – 716 BC.

* 717 BC: Sargon II founds a new capital for Assyria at Dur-Sharrukin.

A crystal lens, turned on the lathe, was discovered by Austen Henry Layard at Nimrud along with glass vases bearing the name of Sargon ; this could explain the excessive minuteness of some of the writing on the Assyrian tablets, and a lens may also have been used in the observation of the heavens.

Sumerian references to the Mar. tu (" tent dwellers " – considered to be Amorite ) country West of the Euphrates date from even earlier than Sargon, at least to the reign of the Sumerian king, Enshakushanna of Uruk.

* 717 BC — Sargon II founds a new capital for Assyria at Dur-Sharrukin.

A lamassu from the palace of Sargon II at Dur-Sharrukin.

* c. 720 BC — Guardian figure ( pictured, right ), from the entrance to the throne room at palace of Sargon II is made.

After the middle of the 12th century BC follows another long period of comparative neglect, but with the conquest of Babylonia by the Assyrian king Sargon II, at the close of the 8th century BC, we meet again with building inscriptions, and under Ashurbanipal, about the middle of the 7th century BC, we find Ekur restored with a splendour greater than ever before, the ziggurat of that period being 58 by 39 m. After the fall of the Neo Assyrian Empire Ekur appears to have gradually fallen into decay, until finally, in the Seleucid period, the ancient temple was turned into a fortress.

In 714 BC, the Assyrians under Sargon II defeated the Urartian King Rusa I at Lake Urmia and destroyed the holy Urartian temple at Musasir.

Beset by difficulties at the beginning of his rule, Sargon II made a pact with the Babylonian king Marduk-apla-iddina II.

Later that year, Sargon defeated an Aramean coalition at Qarqar, thereby gaining control of Arpad, Simirra, and Damascus.

A lamassu from the palace of Sargon II at Dur-Sharrukin.

The Inscription of Sargon II at Tang-i Var pass near the village of Tang-i Var, Hawraman, Zagros

Sargon plundered the fertile lands at the southern and western shore of Lake Urmia, felling orchards and burning the harvest.

While most of the army returned to Assyria, Sargon went on to sack the Urartian temple of the god Haldi and his wife Bagbartu at Musasir ( Ardini ).

In 713 BC Sargon stayed at home ; his troops took, among others, Karalla, Tabal and Cilicia.

Sargon chose Nineveh rather than the traditional capital at Assur.

In 713 BC he ordered the construction of a new palace and town called Dur-Sharrukin (" House of Sargon "), 20 km north of Nineveh at the foot of the Gebel Musri.

* 722-705 BC-An Assyrian bas-relief found in the ruins at Khorsabad during the excavation of the palace of Sargon II ( Sargon II ) has been claimed to depict falconry.

The group was documented at least as early as the empire of Sargon of Akkad ( ca.

Taking his professional name from the ancient king of the same name, Sargon has had a checkered career, acting mostly as a hero during the Golden Age aided by his cartoonish fat little comic relief sidekick / manager Maximillian O ' Leary as he battled crooks, spies and his azure-skinned archenemy the Blue Lama, Queen of Black Magic, but re-emerging in the Silver Age-as a villain, at least at first.

Despite this, Sargon was never a major player in the DC Universe, at least in published adventures.

Sumerians ( who spoke a language isolate ) remained largely dominant in this synthesised Sumero-Akkadian culture however, until the rise of the Akkadian Empire under Sargon the Great in 2334 BCE which united all of Mesopotamia under one ruler.

Sargon explains that they once had physical bodies, but they now exist as beings of pure energy, contained inside the spheres like the one they see before them.

As the bridge crew observes, Thalassa and Sargon share one last kiss.

* Sargon, an Assyrian envoy: name of two Assyrian kings, the first being the founder of one of history's first empires.

According to the Tanakh, Cuthah was one of the five Syrian and Mesopotamian cities from which Sargon II, King of Assyria, brought settlers to take the places of the exiled Israelites ().

From the inscriptions of Sargon II of Assyria we know one Arbaku of Arnashia as one of forty-five chiefs of Median districts who paid tribute to Sargon in 713 BC.

Three stages may be traced in the art of these bas-reliefs: it is vigorous but simple under Ashurnasirpal II, careful and realistic under Sargon II, and refined but wanting in boldness under Ashurbanipal.

Although the 2006 Encyclopædia Britannica reflects Herodotus, stating, " They Cimmerians probably did live in the area north of the Black Sea, but attempts to define their original homeland more precisely by archaeological means, or even to fix the date of their expulsion from their country by the Scythians, have not so far been completely successful ," in recent research academic scholars have made use of documents dating to centuries earlier than Herodotus, such as intelligence reports to Sargon, and note that these identify the Cimmerians as living south rather than north of the Black Sea.

Immediately below these, as at Nippur, were found artifacts dating to the reign of Naram-Suen and Sargon of Akkad, ca.

After these introductions, Sargon takes control of Kirk ; transferring his mind into Kirk's body and moving Kirk's mind to the sphere.

II Kings relates that these settlers were attacked by lions, and interpreting this to mean that their worship was not acceptable to the deity of the land, they asked Sargon to send someone to teach them, which he did.

Notable works in the collection include the famous Megiddo Ivories ; various treasures from Persepolis, the old Persian capital ; a collection of Luristan Bronzes ; a colossal 40-ton human-headed winged bull ( or Lamassu ) from Khorsabad, the capital of Sargon II ; and a monumental statue of King Tutankhamun.