38 OLD BABYLONIAN INSCRIPTIONS 



28. Bibe[iashu] (his son) 1 1219-1211 (nine years). 



29. Bel-shum-iddina I 1210-1209 (one year and a half). 



30. Kadashman-Kharbe 1209-1208 (one year and a half). 



31. Ramnian-shum-iddina 1207-1202 (six years). 



32. Ramman-shum-usur 1201-1172 (thirty years). 



33. Mili-Shikhu (his son) 2 1171-1157 (fifteen years). 



34. Marduk-abal-iddina (his son) . 1156-1144 (thirteen years). 



35. Zamama-shum-iddina 1143 (one year). 



36. Bel-shum-iddina II 3 1142-1140 (three years). 



The last 24 kings = c. 303 years ; the first 4 kings = 68 years ; the remaining 8 

 kings = 205 years and 9 months (each 25-26 years in average 4 ). Total, 36 kings 

 = 576 years and nine months. 



THE DYNASTY OF PASHE. 5 



The cuneiform tablet published on PL 30 and 31 forms a part of the collection 

 J. 8., purchased by the Expedition from Joseph Shemtob'' for the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, July 21, 1888. Unfortunately it is impossible to ascertain with certainty 

 where the stone tablet was found. 7 In regard to its size and mineralogical character 

 it closely resembles the " black stone of Za'aleh," to be found in I R. 66, with which 

 it also has much in common as to its contents. Both belong to the class of the so- 

 called Tiudurru inscriptions. 8 A piece of ground situated in the land of Kaldi, in the 

 province of Bit-Sinmagir (I, 1, 2), which for many years ([, 3-8) had been in pos- 

 session of the family of a certain JSVbvi-shum-iddina (I, 15) but had been unlawfully 

 reduced in size by Ekarra-ikisha, at that time governor of Bit-Sinmagir (I, 9-15), 

 was upon the complaint of the owner (I, 16-11, 5) restored to its original extent by 



1 Identical with S. 2106, 1. 9. See above, p. 11. 



2 Cf. Belser in B. A. II, p. 197, 1. 31. 



3 Cf. R. P. 2 , Vol. V, p. Ill, 1. 14 ; p. 112, 1. 16. Cf. also below, p. 41. 



i Such long reigns appear in no way improbable when compared with the longer reigns of fifteen rulers of the 

 first and second dynasties of Babylon. 



6 Sayce (B. P. 2 , Vol. I, p. 17, note 3) regards this city as identical with Isin and Patesi. Cf. II R. 53, 13a. 



6 Cf. Harper, Hebraica V, pp. 74-76. 



' Cf. "Table of Contents," PI. 30, 31. 



8 1 reckon as such not only " those Babylonian documents which are insciibed on blocks of stone not always quite 

 regularly hewn" (Belser, B. A. II, p. Ill), but also those which, like ours and the Za'aleh stone, were kept within 

 doors and possibly as duplicates of the "steles," which were naturally exposed to destructive influences, so that in 

 disputes concerning boundaries they might furnish the basis for a legal decision. 



