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UNESCO's World Heritage page dates the time of the city of Ashur as first capital of the Assyrian Empire from the 14th to the 9th centuries BC. What that range says, why it is not placed in a single period, and what remains of the city according to the same page.
According to the Met's timeline, Sargon II built a new capital at Khorsabad, ancient Dur Sharrukin, which took seven years to build. The source does not say why; what it does say about the capital and about the script that spread in his time.
According to the Met's timeline, in 879 BCE Ashurnasirpal II moved the capital from Ashur to Nimrud, ancient Kalhu, and decorated his palace with lamassu and alabaster reliefs. How a new capital presents its king, on the evidence of one source.
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