Ashurbanipal

684 BC–630 BC

Assyrian ruler

sovereign · book collector

Born in Nineveh

Contemporaries

People who walked the earth at the same time as Ashurbanipal:

• Sappho (650 BC–569 BC)
• Nebuchadnezzar II (641 BC–561 BC)

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