Khorsabad is the modern name of the ancient city Dur Šarrukin (“Fortress of Sargon”) which was built as the new Assyrian capital in the reign of Sargon II. It was only finished towards the end of this king’s reign (in the year 706 BCE). Since Sargon’s son and successor Sennacherib relocated the capital city to Nineveh. Khorsabad might have never actually functioned as imperial capital, or only for a very short period.