Ashurnasirpal II - I am king. I am lord. I am praiseworthy. I am im

I am king. I am lord. I am praiseworthy. I am important. I am magnificent. I am foremost. I am a hero. I am a warrior. I am a lion, and I am virile.

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Ashurnasirpal II, ?-859 BC, King of Assyria, Quoted in A. K. Grayson, Royal Inscriptions of Assyria

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