382 JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
These two tablets contain between them twenty-seven lines — the 
first thirteen lines, and the second fourteen lines. This inscrip- 
tion has already been published in vol. i. of the Cuneiform In- 
scriptions of Western Asia, edited by Sir Henry Eawlinson, and 
published by the British Museum Trustees. It appears there as a 
small part of a very large inscription. When I turn to that 
volume, I find that on plates 17 to 26 inclusive is given a large 
inscription, entitled " Annals of Sardanapalus," or more correctly 
(for this is wrong), "Annals of Assurnazirpal." It consists of 
three columns, consisting of 389 lines. The lines on these two 
tablets of the museum occur in column two of this, and lines 125 
to 132 inclusive. The contents are exactly the same here as in 
I. E. ; but there are on your tablets a few interesting variants, by 
which I mean that a character in the one case may be written ideo- 
graphically, and in another case syllabically. That fact is interest- 
ing only to Assyrian scholars, and is furthermore an additional 
proof of the genuineness of the tablets. This is all I need say in 
regard to their character. I now proceed to translate, that you 
may have their contents before you ; but before beginning, I ought 
to say that there are two or three verbal differences between these 
and I. K. Yours begins, " The palace of Assurnazirpal," &c. ; the 
other begins, " I, Assurnazirpal," &c. The translation is : 
" The palace of Assurnazirpal, great king, mighty king, king of 
multitudes j son of Tukulti-ninip, great king, mighty king, king of 
multitudes, king of Assyria ; son of Bin-nirari, great king, mighty 
king, king of multitudes, king of Assyria; noble warrior, who in 
the strength of Assur his lord walked : among the kings of the 
four regions his equal exists not : a king who from beyond the 
Tigris to the mount Lebanon and the Great Sea" (Mediterranean) 
" hath subjugated the land Laki in its entirety, the land of Zukhi, 
together with the city Eapiku with his forces he . . ." (doubtful) : 
" which from the source of the Eni and the river Zupnat to the 
land bordering on Sabitanu has his hand conquered : from the 
territories Kirruri together with Kilzani" (here ends the first 
tablet), " from beyond the river Lower Zab to the city Tul-bari 
above the city Zabanta, the city Tul-sa-abtani together with the 
city Tul-sa-Zabtani, the cities Khirimu, Kharut-birati of the land 
Kardunias to the borders of my land I added : and the broad dis- 
tricts of Nairi in its whole extent I laid a tribute upon : The city 
Kalkhu anew I took : the old mound I changed : up to the waters 
