
Tiglath Pilese referred to himself as unrivalled king of the universe, king of the four quarters..
Look at this bas-relief found at a palace in Nimrud… …it depicts the humiliation of one man by another. Some sources identify the prostrate figure as Hanunu, a king who ruled Gaza in the 8th Century BCE. Others simply identify him as a captured enemy. Either way, the one thing everyone agrees on is that the foot placed upon his neck belongs to Tiglath-Pileser III (745 – 727 BCE), an Assyrian king who laid the groundwork for modern imperialism and began a long line of Assyria’