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been set up in Babylon before the payment of tribute in 709B.C., is proved by the mention of the tribute upon it. Cp. G. Smith, "Z. Ægypt. Sprache," 1869, s. 109; 1870, s. 70, 71.

214

Flandin gives the long and short sides of the rectangle doubled at 6784 metres; the inscription which reckons in the whole circuit the building of the palace which juts out from the rest, at 16,280 cubits (ammat). The Babylonian and Assyrian cubits are both = 525 millimetres; Lepsius, "Abh. Berl. Akad." 1853; "Monats-Berichte Ders." 1877. Vol. I. p. 305.

215

Rawlinson, "Monarch," 12, 324 ff.

216

Oppert, "Dour Sarkayan," p. 23, 24.

217

Oppert, "Records of the Past," 7, 55, 56.

218

Oppert, "Dour Sarkayan," p. 8.

219

In Ménant, loc. cit. p. 181.

220

Oppert, "Dour Sarkayan," p. 27, 28; Oppert et Ménant, "Doc. juridiques," p. 168.

221

Ménant, "Annal." 162. In Oppert, "Records of the Past," 7, 30, the fourth canton is called Pappa. Above, p. 86.

222

Inscription of Nimrud in Ménant, loc. cit. p. 206. He reads two talents 30 minæ of gold; G. Smith reads 11 talents of gold.

223

Oppert, "Records of the Past," 7, 32.

224

Oppert, "Records of the Past," 7, 35, 36, 37. Vol I., p. 520.

225

Annals in Ménant, loc. cit. p. 164.

226

Annals in Ménant, p. 164; Oppert, loc. cit. 7, 33.

227

Ménant p. 183.

228

Oppert, loc cit. 7, 34.

229

Ménant, p. 184.

230

Ménant p. 167; Oppert, loc. cit. 7, 37.

231

G. Smith, "Disc." p. 289.

232

Oppert, loc. cit. 7, 27; Ménant, loc. cit. p. 192, 195, 200, 201, 205, 207.

233

In Ménant, loc. cit. p. 188.

234

Above, p. 93; Oppert, "Records of the Past," 7, 46-51.

235

Ménant, "Babylone," p. 157.

236

The Annals in Oppert, loc. cit. 7, 51-53. The Fasti in Ménant, "Annal." p. 186, 187.

237

Cylinder Bellino in Ménant, "Annal." p. 229.

238

G. Rawlinson, "Monarch," 22. 179, n. 5.

239

Ménant, loc. cit. 229, 230.

240

Ménant, loc. cit. p. 212.

241

Ménant, loc. cit. p. 228, 229.

242

Ménant, loc. cit. p. 211.

243

Year of Nabudurussur.

244

G. Smith, "Disc." p. 308.

245

G. Smith, "Assurbanipal," p. 318.

246

Ménant, loc. cit. p. 224.

247

Rodwell, "Records of the Past," 9, 23; Ménant, loc. cit. p. 235.

248

In Ménant, loc. cit. p. 237.

249

Joseph. "Antiq." 10, 1, 4.

250

In Euseb. "Chron." 1, p. 35, ed. Schöne.

251

Euseb. "Chron." 1, p. 27, ed. Schöne.

252

Cf. E. Schrader, "K. A. T." s. 213 ff.

253

In Ménant, "Annal." p. 231.

254

E. Schrader, "K. A. T." s. 219 ff.

255

G. Smith, "Disc." p. 298; Cylinder Taylor in Ménant, "Annal." p. 215.

256

G. Smith's Cylinder, "Disc." p. 298; Ménant reads 2800 prisoners on the Cylinder Taylor.

257

Cylinder Bellino.

258

Cylinder Bellino, in Ménant, p. 228; Cylinder G. Smith, "Disc." p. 302; Cylinder Taylor in Ménant, p. 227; "Records of the Past," 7, 61.

259

G. Smith, "Disc." p. 308; Ménant, "Annal." p. 219, "Records of the Past," 7, 63.

260

The fourth campaign of Sennacherib, the establishment of Assurnadin cannot be later than the year 698 B.C., since the Cylinder Smith, which dates from the year 697 B.C., concludes with these events, and then speaks only of the buildings; G. Smith, "Disc." p. 308.

261

In Ménant, loc. cit. p. 220, 221.

262

In Ménant, p. 232.

263

An inscription of this king found at Susa is explained by Oppert, "Records of the Past," 7, 82.

264

In Ménant, loc. cit. p. 232.

265

Above, p. 114; Annals of Sargon, in Oppert, "Records of the Past," 7, 45.

266

Cylinder Taylor in Ménant, p. 222.

267

Cylinder Taylor in Ménant, p. 232, 233; Talbot, "Records of the Past," 1, 78.

268

Inscription of Nebbi Yunus in Ménant, loc. cit. p. 232. An inscription of Exarhaddon repeats the events of this war: Suzub, "of unknown race, a lower chieftain," came to Babylon, and was raised to be king; Umman Minanu was gained by the treasures of Bit Saggatu; the Parsua joined, etc.; G. Smith, "Disc." p. 315.

269

Rodwell, "Records of the Past," 9, 27, 28; Ménant, "Babylone," p. 166. Vol. II. p. 40.

270

2 Kings xx. 12.

271

Merodach Baladan was, as has been shown (p. 113), driven out of Babylon in the year 703 B.C.; it is certain that he was ruler there in 704 B.C. If the Books of the Kings do not mention his embassy to Hezekiah till after the siege of Jerusalem by the Assyrians, they show by the announcement of Isaiah to Hezekiah, which they put after the embassy of Merodach Baladan thus: "He will be saved out of the hand of the Assyrians" (2, xx. 6), that the embassy was at Jerusalem before the campaign of Sennacherib; cf. Isa. xxxix.

272

Isa. xxii. 2; 2 Chron. xxxii. 4, 5.

273

Isa. xxx. 2, 3, 6.

274

Isa. xxxi. 1-3.

275

Isa. xxx. 9, 10.

276

Isa. xxviii. 12.

277

Isa. xxviii. 15. The deceit is no doubt to be explained by the secrecy of the negotiations with Egypt.

278

Isa. xxx. 15, 16.

279

Isa. xxx. 12, 13.

280

Isa. xxviii. 22.

281

Isa. xxix. 1.

282

Isa. x. 28-32.

283

Isa. xxi. 1, 2, 5-7.

284

It is the third warlike enterprise of Sennacherib,

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