THE LATEST DISCOVERIES IN BABYLONIA. 187 



me, ill the Transactiom of ike Society of Biblical Archaeology, 

 vol. vii, part 1 (1880). It is not my intention to give here the 

 whole inscription, but simply the events of Xabonidus's ITtli 

 year — that referrintj^ to the tragic event in the history of 

 Babyhmia and the native kings whom culture would seem in a 

 measure to have ^mfitted for resisting the apparently ruder 

 political powers around them. 



" [17th year. They requested I'] Nebo to go forth from 

 Borsippa [to Babylon, and he went and dwelt in E-sagila]. 

 The king entered into E-tur-kalama* ; [and made sacrifice ? 

 The people of the upper sea ?] and the lower sea revolted. A 



journey of Bel went forth ; the New- Year 



festival with success (?) they held. In the month . . 

 [Nergal and the god]s of Amarda, Zagaga and tlie gods of Kis, 

 Nin-lil and [the gods] of Hursag-kalama entered Babylon. At 

 the end of the month Elul the gods of Akkad . . . wlio 

 are over the atmosphere and under the atmosphere, entered 

 Babylon — the gods of Borsippa, Cuthah, and Sippar did not 

 enter. In the month Tammuz Cyrus made battle in Opis on 

 the river Tigris among the people of Akkad. He proclaimed (?) 

 the people of Akkad rebellious (?) — he slew the people. On the 

 14th day Sippar was taken without battle — Xabonidus Hed. 

 On the L6th day Ugbaru, governor of Gutiu"\ and the soldiers 

 of Cyrus entered Babylon without battle. Afterwards Xaboni- 

 dus was made prisoner (?)— he was taken in Babylon. At the 

 end of the^ month the guards of the land of Gutiu"' closed the 

 gates of E-sagila — no loss of anything in E-sagila and the 

 temples took place, and the least thing (?) passed not out. In 

 Marcheswan, the 3rd day, Cyrus entered Babylon. The 

 deputations (?) before him were numerous, asking safety for the 

 city — " Cyrus, the safety of Babylon, all of it, command." 

 Gubaru, his governor, appointed governors in Babylon, and 

 from the mouth Chisleu to the month Adar, the gods of Akkad 

 which Xabonidus had brought down to Babylon, returned to 

 their sanctuaries (?). In the month Marcheswan, the night of 

 the 11th day, Ugbaru [went] against [the citadel?], and the son 

 of the king died. From the 27th of the month Adar to the 

 3rd day of the montli Msan there was weeping in Akkad — all 

 the people bowed their heads. On the 4th day Cambyses, son 



of Cy[rus], extended (?) the grant to the temple E-nig-had- 

 kalama." 



^ The temple of Ninip (Aniisat, according to Pogiiou). 



