1855.] 



Excavations in Assyria and Babylonia. 



145 



Name (^ King. 



Approximate 

 Date. 



Tiglath-Pileser I. . b.c. 1120 

 Asshur-Bani-Pal I. . . 1100 



Asshur-Adan-Akhi . . 950 



Asshur-Danin-Il . . 925 



Phulukhll. ... 900 



Tigulti-Sanda . . . 880 



Sardanapalus . . . 850 



Shalama-Bar IL . . 815 

 (Asshur-Danin-Pal) 



Shamas-Phul ... 780 



Phulukh III. for Pul and 1 ^^ 

 Samuramit (Semiramisj 



Tiglath-Pileser II. . . 747 

 Shalmaneser (?) . . 730 



Name (f King. 

 Sargon 



Sennacherib 

 Esar-haddon 

 Asshur-Bani-Pal II 



Asshur-Emit-Ilut 



B.C. 



Approximate 

 Date. 

 721 

 702 

 680 

 660 

 640 

 to 625 



III. — Babylonian Period. 



625 

 605 



Nabopolassar 

 Nabokodrossor (or 1 



Nebuchadnezzar) j 

 Evil-Merodach ... 562 

 Nergal-Shar-Ezer . . 560 

 Nabonidus, and Bel-Shar-) 554 



Ezer (Belshazzar) . jto53S 

 Taking of Babylon, by Cyrus. 



N.B. — It must be understood that the reading of many of these 

 names is still far from certain. 



[H. R.] 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, July 2. 



SiE Chables Fellows, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Thomas Pargiter Dickenson, Esq. 

 Thomas Dunn, Esq. 

 John MacLennan, M.D. and 

 Captain Raymond White, 



were duly elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



Eustace Anderson, Esq. 

 J. Richard Andrews, Esq. 

 John Sherard Coleman, Esq. 

 William Delannoy, Esq. and 

 Col. William Loyd, 



were admitted Members of the Royal Institution. 



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