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The Ancient World

Episode C29 - City of the Raven

The Ancient World

Scott C.

History

4.62K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Synopsis: Rusa of Urartu wins early victories against Assyrian armies, but his intrigues in the Zagros kingdom of Mannea earn him Sargon’s wrath. After a crushing defeat by Cimmerian invaders, Rusa’s unable to prevent Sargon’s destruction of his kingdom. “I caused there to be lamentation in the wide land Urartu and in all the mountains, and I made Rusa, their king, use flint blades, razors (and) scalpels to slash himself in mourning for as long as he lived. I made Musasir part of the territory of Assyria and assigned it to the authority of a eunuch of mine, the palace herald. The awesome splendor of the god Assur, my lord, overwhelmed Rusa, the Urartian, and so with his own iron dagger he stabbed himself in the heart like a pig and put an end to his life.” – The Annals of Sargon II Map of the Iron Age Near East: https://audio.ancientworldpodcast.com/Map_Near_East.jpg Map of the Iron Age Zagros Mountains: https://audio.ancientworldpodcast.com/Map_Zagros_Enhanced.jpg Episode Images: https://audio.ancientworldpodcast.com/C29_Images.pdf References and Further Reading: https://audio.ancientworldpodcast.com/C29_References.pdf Please contact [email protected] if you would like to advertise on this podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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whisper. The man who'd made the Assyrians tremble had proved no match for Ticlith Palazer.

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Who'd invaded Rar to, defeated his army,

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and besieged the king in his capital.

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Vanquished but not killed,

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and that's the spot where the trail begins to go cold.

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According to historian Christoph Hipp, we can only speculate what happened to the Arartian king after the campaign.

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The defeat may have stimulated the opposition into action against Sarduri,

2:11.0

who'd failed to prevent the Assyrians from devastating the countryside.

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Whatever the details, it soon became clear that Sarduri was gone,

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replaced on the throne by a figure named Ursa or Rusa.

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Now we know that Sarduri had a son named Rusa.

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