210 REV. W. ST. CLAIR TISDALL, D.D., ON THE BOOK OF DANIEL : 



the Jewish Temple at Elephantine three years previously — is 

 dated : " 20th of Marcheswan, year 17th of Darius the King." As 

 Darius II reigned from 424 to 405 B.C., it is not difficult to discover 

 that the appeal was written in 407 B.C. In the same way, omit- 

 ting the days and months (the latter, as I have said, often given 

 in two notations), other papyri are dated as follows :— 



Ungnad, Doc. 2a, Strassburg Papvrus, 14th year of Darius II, 

 410 B.C. 



Ungnad, Doc. 5, Cairo Mus., P. 13480, 37th year of Artaxerxes 

 I, 428 B.C. 



Ungnad, Doc. 6, Cairo Mus., P. 13464, 5th year of Darius II, 

 419 B.C. 



Ungnad, Doc. 8, Cairo Mus., P. 13492, 12th year of Darius II, 

 412 B.C. 



*Ungnad, Doc. 15, Cairo Mus., P. 13470, 15th year of Darius II, 

 409 B.C. (?) 



Ungnad, Doc. 27, Cairo Mus., P. 13493, 2 ? year of Xerxes (?) 

 482 B.C. 



Ungnad, Doc. 29, Cairo Mus., P. 13475, 2 ? year of Xerxes (?) 

 483-2 B.C. 



Ungnad, Doc. 28, Cairo Mus., P. 13467, 4th year of Artaxerxes 

 I., 461 B.C. 



Ungnad, Doc. 30, Cairo Mus., P. 13491, 9th year of Artaxerxes 

 I, 456 B.C. 



Ungnad, Doc. 31, Cairo Mus., P. 13489, 27th year of Darius I, 

 494 B.C. (?) 



Ungnad, Doc. 37, Cairo Mus., P. 13476, 5th year of Amyrtaeus, 

 circa 400 B.C. 



* Papyrus No. 13470 had a number, now illegible, after the 15. It is 

 not absolutely certain, though very probable, that the name erased in 

 P. 13475 is that of Xerxes. In P. 13489 there is some shght doubt 

 whether Darius I or Darius II is the king referred to. Ungnad' s note 

 runs thus : " The No. 20 is not quite clear : it has not the usual shape. 

 That a 10 is meant is 7iot completely excluded. In the latter case we are 

 deaUng with the seventeenth year of Darius II (424-405); in the former case 

 only Darius I (521-486) would come into consideration, for Darius II 

 reigned only nineteen years. Then our document would be (from the 

 year 494) the most ancient Papyrus from Elephantine. The writing, 

 however, speaks rather in favour of Darius II." If the latter king is 

 meant, the document dates from 407 B.C., and P. 13493, of B.C. 482, is the 

 earliest. 



