30 ACCOUNTS, lk.C.., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Sennacherib of Assyria, after taking Larancha and Sarrama, sets Bel-ibnior Belibos on 

 the throne of Babylon. 'I'hen, during the first year of this king, Sennacherib destroyed 

 the cities of flirimma and Hararatu. In the third year of Belibos, Sennacherib came to 

 Akkad and spoiled the country, carrying off Belibos and his chief men to Assyria. 



The next ruler or King of Babylon mentioned is Assur-nadin-sum or Aparanadios, son 

 of Sennachei'ib. In the sixth year of this king Sennacherib invaded Elam and destroj^ed 

 many of the cities. In return, HuUusu, king of Elam, afterwards invaded Akkad, ravaging 

 the country as far as Sippara. Ai)aranadios he carried away captive to Elam, and set 

 Nergal-uSezib or Regebelos upon the Babylonian throne. This ruler began by taking Niffer 

 from the Assyrians. Shortly after a battle was fought with the Assyrians near Niffer, in 

 w^hich the Babylonians were victorious. The Babylonian king, however, did not long sur- 

 vive, and died after a reign of only one year and six months. During the reign of Nergal- 

 uSezib, the Elamites revolted against their king Hallusu, and having killed him, set 

 Kudur on the throne. After the accession of the new king, Sennacherib invaded Elam, 

 and ravaged the land from Has to Bit-Burnaki. In the meanwhile Musezib-Marduk or 

 Mesesimordakos mounted the throne of Babylon. 



During the first year of the new ruler another revolt took jilace iu Elam, in which 

 Kudur was killed, after having reigned only ten months, and was succeeded by Menanu. 

 The new Elamite ruler got together an army composed of Akkadians and Elamites, and 

 fought a battle with the Assyrians at Halule, The allied armies obtained the victory. 

 In his fourth year, Mesesimordakos was taken prisoner by Menanu, king of Elam, and 

 sent to Assyria. Menanu died at the end of the same yeai", and was succeeded by Hum- 

 bahaldasu. 



Sennacherib now reigned over Babylon as well as Assyria. Humbahaldasu, who died 

 of some sickness in the eighth year of his reign, was succeeded by Humbahaldasu II. On 

 the 20th of 'I'ebet of the eighth year of Sennacherib as king of Babylon, one of the sons 

 of Sennacherib revolted and killed his father. The revolt in Assyria lasted from the 20th 

 of Tebet until the 2nd or 3rd of Adar, on the 8th (or 18th) of which month Esarhaddon 

 mounted the throne of Assyria, 



In the first year of Esarhaddon one of the sons of Merodach-baladan went to Larsa 

 and gathered an army together. Being defeated by the Assyrians, he fled to Elam, but 

 instead of finding refuge there, he was captured and put to death. 



Many people, evidently those who had revolted against the Assyrian power, were sent 

 to Assj'ria and put to death in the third year of Esarhaddon. In the same year the city of 

 Sidon was captured and plundered. The next year the head of the king of Sidon, also 

 that of the king of Kundi and Sisii, were cut off' and sent to Assyria. 



In the 6th year of Esarhaddon, the king of Elam made a raid into Babylonia. In this 

 same year also, the Assyrian army started on a campaign in Egypt. Humbahaldasu, kino- 

 of Elam, died in his palace, " not sick," and was succeeded by his brother Urtagu. 



The next year the Assyrians seem to have suffered a defeat in Egypt. 



In the 8th year of Esarhaddon the Assyrian army captured and spoiled the land of 

 Rurisaa, and the plunder was brought to the city of Ur iu the month Kisleu, On the 

 th of Adar the wife of the king died. 



In Nisan of the 10th year of Esarhaddon an Assyrian army was sent to Egypt, and on 

 the 3rd, 10th, and 17th uf Tammuz battles were fought, the result being that Memphis 

 was taken on the 22nd. The king of Egypt (Tirhakah) fled, but his son was captured. 



In the 12th year of his reign Esarhaddon started for Egypt, but fell sick on the way, 

 and died on the 12th of Marcheswan, after having ruled Assyria for 12 years. Samag- 

 sum-ukin (Saosduchinos) in Babylonia, and Assur-bani-abli in Assyria, his two sons, 

 succeeded. 



In the month lyyar of the accession-year of Saosduchinos the gods of Akkad (Baby- 

 lonia), which had been kept in Assur, were brought back to Babylon. In the same year 

 the king of Kiribtu was captured, and on the 20th of Tebet a man named Bel-edir was 

 captured in Babylon, and killed. 



With the accession-year of Saosduchinos this important text comes to an end. It seems 

 to have been the first of a series, and was copied from the original document in the 22nd 

 year of a king whose name is lost. Probably Darius. 



A tablet giving the will of a man named ISTabu-balat-su-ikbi, who divides his property 

 between Kalbi-Bau and Nabu-ukin-zir, his sons ; Amat-Belti, his mother, and Tabatu 

 and Tabanni, his two sisters. He makes also the conditions that his two sons shall live 

 with their grandmother as long as she lives, and that she, on her part, shall give dowries 

 to her two daughters, Tabatu and Tabanni, out of her own dowry. Dated the 16th of 

 Tammuz in the 14th year of Nabonidus. 



A tablet relating to the dowry of Li'at-Belti, and half the dowry of her mother, Tibta 

 (about which a decision had already been made by the judges, giving it to Marduk-zir- 

 ibni, husband of Li'at-Belti), confirming the former decision, and ordering Nabii-takbi- 

 esir to give up the property and puy the rent or interest thereon. Dated at Babylon in 

 the 6th of Sebat in the third year of Cyrus. 



A letter from Badanu to Sula, his father, informing him that he had sold a certain 

 amount of corn to Ukkammu and Mesu, his brothers. The document is witnessed by six 

 people, and is dated the 13th of Adar in the second year of Cambyses. 



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