King d' Assyrie (v. 668-v. 625 av. J. - C.). Assourbanipal or Assurbanipal. That that the Greeks named Sardanapalos (Sardanapale) was most powerful of the Assyrian sovereigns.

Its troops completed the conquest of Egypt, Chaldée and Elam.

At the end of its reign, however, the decline of Assyrie started, threatened by Mèdes. In its library of Ninive, Assourbanipal gathered more than 20 ' 000 shelves (preserved today at the British Museum of London).