sennacherib, king of Assyria, tells us, "The gods of the city Hekali, which Marduk-nadin-akh, king of the land of Accad, had taken in the time of Tiglath Pilesar, king of Asshur, and carried to Babylon 418 years previously, I have caused to be brought back again from Babylon and put up again in their place."
"The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI)"
Max Duncker
He handed on to sennacherib no conquests which could not have been made good, and the widest extent of territory which the central power was adequate to hold.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth
Since Sargon's triumphant raids, the Great King's writ had run gradually less and less far into Media; and by his retaliatory invasions of Elam, which sennacherib had provoked, Ashurbanipal not only exhausted his military resources, but weakened a power which had served to check more dangerous foes.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth