62 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



in the month of Ab, in the eponymy of Ilu-ittia, 

 the governor of Damascus, and it describes the 

 principal events in Sennacherib's reign up to the 

 summer of the year B.C. 694. The text records 

 two campaigns of Sennacherib which are omitted 

 in the later cylinder inscriptions, not because they 

 were comparatively unimportant, but because the 

 king took no active part in them. The first 

 of the two campaigns took place B.C. 698, and 

 was undertaken to put down a revolt which 

 had broken out in Cilicia under the direction of 

 Kirua, prefect of Illubru ; the rebels had seized 

 the Cilician Road and stopped all traffic. The 

 Assyrians suppressed the revolt, opened the road, 

 and brought back Kirua to Nineveh, where he 

 was flayed. The second Cilician campaign was 

 undertaken B.C. 695, and was directed against 

 a certain Khidi, who established himself in Til- 

 Garimmu, a city of Tabali, a district lying to the 

 north-east of Cilicia. The Assyrians attacked the 

 city and destroyed it, and deported the inhabitants 

 and their gods to Assyria. 



The new cylinder contains a full account of 

 the building operations of Sennacherib, and de- 

 scribes the improvements which he made in the 

 city of Nineveh. The area of the city was more 

 thandoubled,fine gardens were made, and the water 

 supply was greatly improved. Sennacherib devised 

 a complete system of fortification for the city, 

 and he built fifteen gates, seven facing south-east, 

 three north, and five south. The whole city was 

 surrounded with two walls, each being of immense 

 strength and thickness. The names and positions 

 of these gates are made known by the new cylinder 

 for the first time. This cylinder was probably 

 found in the structure of the wall of Nineveh, 

 beside one of the principal city gates. 



[No. 103,000.] 



2. A fine fragment of a baked clay cylinder inscribed 

 with the annals of Sennacherib, king of Assyria 

 from B.C. 705 to B.C. 681. The contents of the 

 inscription have no equivalent in the great Taylor 

 cylinder, but a portion of the text corresponds 

 to a passage in one of the Bull Inscriptions, 

 and describes the building of the royal palace 

 at Nineveh, and the transport of cedar beams 

 from Mount Amanus and Mount Sirara in the 

 Lebanon. 



ii. — 1. Archaic bronze figure of a bearded god or king 

 wearing a headdress, with horns, similar to that 

 found on Elamite figures from Susa, B.C. 2000 or 

 earlier. Probably Elamite. [No. 103,006.] 



