164 THEOPHILUS G. PINCHES, LL.D., M.R.A.S., ON 
Taylor Cylinder, inscribed for the same monarch. This text has, 
on its eight faces, no less than 740 lines of writing dealing with 
his campaigns and his architectural works. There is the usual 
honorific introduction, and this is followed by his first campaign, 
which was against Merodach-bal-adan ; his second, directed 
against the Kassites and the YaSubi-galleans ; his third, which 
passed in the land of Hatti, the territory of the Hittites, 
and was undertaken to chastise Hezekiah and punish the 
Ekronites; his fourth, which was against the small Chaldean 
kingdom of Bit-Yakin; and his fifth, directed against certain 
states occupying the mountain-fastnesses of Mesopotamia. 
After these well-known narratives, however, we get details of 
two little-known military expeditions, in which Sennacherib 
did not personally take part, but which were led by his generals. 
The first of the two was against Kirua, ruler of the land of Que 
(Cilicia), whom he calls “city-chief” of Illubru, and describes 
as one of his officials. This man not being, as his name implies, 
an Assyrian, naturally thought to make himself independent of 
Assyrian rule, and to this end got the city of Hilakku (Cilicia) 
to revolt, and the inhabitants of the cities Ingiraé and Tarsus 
to rally to his side. These allies occupied and blocked the 
Cilician pass, hoping to be able to arrest the Assyrian troops in 
their advance. In this, however, they were unsuccessful, the 
forces sent against them being armed with all the thoroughness 
for which the Assyrians were renowned, and even more thoroughly 
than on former occasions. The Cilicians were first defeated 
“among the difficult mountains,” and the cities of Ingira and 
Tarsus were captured and spoiled. Next came the siege of 
Tllubru, carried on with the help of all kinds of warlike engines, 
and its fall followed in due course. Kirua, the governor, was 
captured, and much spoil taken. Having been brought to 
Nineveh, he met the fate which awaited him, that of flaying— 
whether alive or dead the record does not say. At the re- 
occupation of Illubru, which followed, Assur’s emblem was set 
up, and, facing it, the memorial slab which had been prepared 
for the purpose. 
According to Polyhistor, Sennacherib proceeded against 
Cilicia in person, a statement which, if he be referring to the 
same campaign, must be regarded as incorrect. This historian 
also says that he fought with them a pitched battle, in which, 
though he suffered great loss, he was successful in defeat- 
ing them, and erected on the spot a monument of his 
victory, consisting of a statue of himself, and a record of 
prowess “in Chaldean characters.” Sennacherib does not mention 
