Assyria Quotes

I am king. I am lord. I am praiseworthy. I am important. I am magnificent. I am foremost. I am a hero. I am a warrior. I am a lion, and I am virile.

The ancient city Aqpu, where kings who had preceded me had built, had deteriorated and turned into ruined hills. I rebuilt the city completely, decorated it and made it bigger than it was before. I then built my palace.

As the stars looked to me when I was a shepherd in Assyria, they look to me now as a New-Englander.

If a woman, who is a widow, enter into the house of a man, whatsoever she brings with her---all is her husband's. But if a man enter in to a woman’s house, whatsoever he brings---all is the woman's

I carried off his silver, gold, alabaster possessions, … and much bronze property, his palace women and his daughters, … his wagons, his oxen, his sheep, and his valuable tribute which like the stars of heaven, had no number.

If a woman induces an abortion, they shall prosecute her, they shall convict her, they shall crucify her, they shall not bury her. If she die from the abortion, they shall crucify her, they shall not bury her.

If the wife of a man be walking on the highway, and a man seize her, say to her "I will surely have intercourse with you," if she be not willing and defend herself, and he seize her by force and rape her, whether they catch him upon the wife of a man, or whether at the word of the woman whom he has raped, the elders shall prosecute him, they shall put him to death. There is no punishment for the woman.

If a man strike the daughter of a man and cause her to miscarry, they shall prosecute him, they shall convict him, two talents and thirty manas of lead shall he pay, fifty blows they shall inflict on him, one month shall he toil…. If a man strike a harlot and cause her to miscarry blows for blows they shall lay upon him; he shall make restitution for a life