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The following will show tho cirrangement of the roigns of 

 the period : — 



From these inscriptions we find that from B.C. 2280-2120^ 

 the kings of Elam were supreme over a large portion of 

 Chaldea^ and that the King of Larsa or Elassar was the son 

 of one of them, and acting as viceroy under his father. The 

 kings of Shinai or Sumir and the King of the Guti or 

 Kurdistan were also in alliance with the others. A very 

 valuable proof of the relationship between the kings of the 

 land of Guti or Kurdistan, and Babylonia, is furnished by a 

 monument discovered by Mr. Eassam at Aboo Hubba, the 

 ancient Sippara. It is a stone cap of a column, much injured, 

 which bears a votive inscription of a king of Gu-ti-im 

 (t^^ >-<y< ^^j^), the name is unfortunately obliterated, to the 

 h5Uu-god of Sippara. The inscription is very archaic, and 

 apparently of great antiquity. 



The geographical horizon of the Chaldeans at this early 

 period is very well revealed in the astronomical omen tablets, 

 forming part of the great astrological work entitled the 

 Booh of the Observation of Bel, which consisted of seventy 

 tablet books, and the compilation of which, was attributed to 

 Sargon I., King of Agadhe (B.C. 3750). It is, of course, 

 impossible to prove that this is a correct attribution, but, judg- 

 ing from the omens and records of eclipses, &c., the work is 

 certainly older than the twenty-fifth century before our era. 

 In this work, the most important tablet of which is a list of 

 omens derived from eclipses (W .A.I., iii. 60), we find 



