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examples the several kinds of ideographs, including determina- 

 tive signs. The reading of the names of Babylon, Assyria, and 

 Jerusalem, and of the royal names of Nebuchadnezzar the 

 Great, and his father, of Esarchaddon, who built the south- 

 west palace at ISimrud, Sennacherib, who built the palace at 

 Kouyunjik, and his father, who built the palace at Khorsabad, 

 are fully discussed. The author then proceeds to consider the 

 chronological order of the inscriptions. Those which are en- 

 graved on the reverses of many of the slabs were cut before 

 the others, and then rejected ; the slab being turned, and a new 

 inscription engraved on its other face. This is easily accounted 

 for by supposing that, in the course of his reign, the position 

 of the king was materially altered. Now it appears that on 

 the reverses of the slabs he is not spoken of as being in pos- 

 session of Babylon ; nor is Nebo, the peculiar god of the Ba- 

 bylonians, mentioned among the other gods. In the inscrip- 

 tions found in front, Nebo is named with high honour, and 

 authority over Babylon is claimed. The builder of the palace 

 does not, however, term himself " king" of Babylon, but uses 

 a different name. The custom of appointing dependent kings 

 is illustrated by various examples, and the conclusion arrived 

 at is, that this king, having conquered Babylon, appointed a 

 dependent king. The date of this conquest is fixed as 731b. c. 

 when Chinzirus and Porus are said to have commenced their 

 reign. Chinzirus was the Khorsabad king, of whose name it 

 is shown that it is a possible corruption ; and Porus was the 

 dependent Assyrian king of Babylon. His name is identified 

 with Pul, that of a former king of Assyria. It is shown that the 

 date of this conquest was subsequent to the tenth year of the 

 reign of Chinnilin, and before his fifteenth, probably about 

 the thirteenth. This would place his accession in 744, which 

 cannot be much astray. His contemporaries were Bocchoris, 

 King of Egypt, and Gita, King of Ethiopia, the reading of 

 which four names is explained. The last is identified with the 

 Zit of Africanus. The Egyptian chronology subsequent to 



