Tiglath-pileser : Tiglath-pileser I, king of Assyria (ruled 1115-1077 BC), defeated the Babylonians, expelled the Mushki invaders from Assyrian Armenia, & campaigned as far west as the coast of the Mediterranean. Tiglath-pileser III (ruled 744-727 BC) inaugurated last & greatest phase of Assyrian expansion.
... for garments... The earliest date [for the Indian peacock's arrival in Assyria] may be 738 B.C., when there is a possible reference to a peacock among the wonderful birds received as tribute by Tiglath Pileser III." Majumdar, 2 1. Foreign Influence in Ancient India, p. 30. 2."India and the Western World", The Age of Imperial Unity, p. 612. Page 326 gathering "archaeological... Aramaic language and not just a few Semitic words as current in India's borderland so long ago?" We find Aramaic fairly on the move when in the year 731 B.C., in the reign of the Assyrian Tiglath Pileser III, there comes, as Philip K. Hitti 2 tells us, the representation of a scribe recording in Aramaic the plunder from a captured city. But previous to that time the Aramean merchants had already... in the 'products of the seas', perhaps pearls for which throughout the ages the Persian Gulf has been famous." 3 And if we believe, as Hitti 4 does, that the first mention of the Arameans by Tiglath Pileser I (c. 1100 B.C.), in close association with the word "Akhlamu", merely throws into prominence a people already subsumed under the latter designation in the centuries before, then we may recognise ...
... 365 Thomas, F. W., 176, 236, 243, 244, 252, 269, 277, 580-81 Tiastenes, 476, 480, 481, 603-4 Tibetan books, 365, 366 Tibetan chronology about Buddha, 369 Tiglath Pileser 1.327 Tiglath Pileser III, 326, 327 Tilak, B.G., 108 Tinnevelly District, 210, 374, 377 Tiramaski (Dar-Mesheq, Damascus), 334 Tithogoli Panannaya, 475fn. Tondamandalam, 274 Toramā ...
... death, while on the marble floor at his feet are strewn like flowers the images of the same stars that shone on the pride of Nahusha, the tapasya of Dhruv and the splendours of Yayati, that saw Tiglath-Pileser, Sennacherib and the Egyptian Pharaohs, Pompey's head hewn off on the sands of Egypt and Caesar bleeding at Pompey's sculptured feet, Napoleon's mighty legions thundering victorious at the bidding ...
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