EEFEEKING TO BABYLONIA AND ELAM, ETC. 49 



limutti (?) - su lib - ba - su 



Ills evil (?) (from) his heart 



ilani ab[e] (?) 



the gods father[s ?] .... 



12 bel r?) hi - tu la 



lord of sin shall 



i - 



not [exist ? ] 



The Probable Contents of S^. Ill, 2. 



After the reference to the work of some one whose name 

 is not preserved, to the gods, and to " Samas (the sungod), 

 illuminator of [the earth?]," Merodach, "the lord of lords," 

 is spoken of as having, "in the faithfulness of his heart," 

 devastated (?) some region, "all of it," and, perhaps, "caused 

 to be slain " (obv., 1. 9), the ruler who did not nourish {malku 

 Id zanin, 1. 8), that is, in all probability, "patronize" [the 

 temples]. Dur-sir-ilani, son of Eri-[E]aku (I. D), is then 

 spoken of, and the spoiling of some place and devastating (?) 

 by water (\1^ f-<«) of Babylon and the great temple E-saggil. 

 This is followed by a reference to the slaughtering of some 

 person " like(?) a lamb," a deed committed ( judging from the 

 traces on the edge) by the son of some one whose name is 

 lost. Old and young, too, [were slain] by the sword (1. 12), 

 and some person or thing "cut off" (1. 13), and the writer 

 immediately afterwards refers to Tudhala (Tidal), son of 

 Gazza[ni ?], and to the spoiling of some place and the 

 devastating by water of Babylon and the temple E-saggil 

 1. 14) — a statement which would lead one to suppose that 

 Tidal had imitated Dur-sir-ilani (see lines (9, 10), and this 

 supposition is strengthened by the following line, where we 

 are informed that his (? Gazza[ui]'s) son " fell upon him with 

 the weapon of his hand (1. 15), and then [proclaimed?] his 

 dominion (?) before the temple of Anunit (1. IH). 



The reverse begins with a refereuce to the land of Elam, 

 the city Ahhe (?), and the land of Rabbatu'", and I at first 

 thought that the lattei* two were spoiled by the king cf the 

 former, but one may just as easily refer this line to Tudhala 

 or Tidal — "he spoiled [from ?] Elam and the city of Ah[ie (?) 



