[Footnote 62: See below, p. 133.] [Footnote 63: That Berossus depended on native lists of rulers in compiling his first dynasty of semi-mythical kings has been strikingly confirmed by documents discovered recently in the Niffer Collection of tablets preserved in the Pennsylvania Museum. These have been published by Poebel, "Univ. of Pennsyl. Mus. Publications," Vol. IV., No. I, and Vol. V., and the new information they furnish is of great interest for the earlier history. It may be noted that the figure 34,090 is that given for the duration of the dynasty in Syncellus (ed. Dindorf, p. 147); in the equivalent in sars, etc., which is added (_i.e._ 9 _sars,_ 2 _ners,_ and 8 _soss_ = 34,080 years), it is probable that the units are intentionally ignored, though some would regard 34,080 as the correct figure (see below, p. 115). In Eusebius ("Chron. lib. I.," ed. Schoene, Col. 25) the figure is 33,091 (probably a mistake for 34,091); this figure at any rate confirms the reading of ninety (against eighty) in Syncellus, cf. Meyer, "Beiträge zur alten Geschichte (Klio)," III., p. 133; and see further, p. 116 f., n. 5.] [Footnote 64: Eusebius, "Chron. lib. I.," ed. Schoene, Col. 25; see also Schwartz in Pauly-Wissowa, "Real-Encyclopädie," III. (i.). Col. 311.] [Footnote 65: In margin of MSS. 34 years.] [Footnote 66: In margin of MSS. 48 years.] [Footnote 67: See further, p. 115 f.] [Footnote 68: Those before the Deluge are said to have reigned for a hundred and twenty _sars, i.e._ 432,000 years.] [Footnote 69: Eusebius, "Chron. lib. I.," ed. Schoene, Col. 53: "Hoc pacto Khaldæi suæ regionis reges ab Aloro usque ad Alexandrum recensent."] [Footnote 70: See above, p. 114, n. 1.] [Footnote 71: "Chron. lib. I.," ed. Schoene, Col. 25: "postquos, inquit (_sc._ Poly-histor), rex Chaldæorum extitit, cui nomen Phulus est."] [Footnote 72: That is to say, at the point marked by the group Χίνξηρος καὶ Πῶros in the Ptolemaic Canon. Ukîn-zêr is an abbreviation of Nabû-mukîn-zêr.] [Footnote 73: See above, p. 114, n. 4.] [Footnote 74: Cf. Meyer, "Beiträge zur alten Geschichte (Klio)," III., pp. 131 ff.] [Footnote 75: The statement occurs in the commentary of Simplicius upon Aristotle's "De Caelo," and the Greek text reads 31,000; cf. ed. Heiberg, p. 506. But in a Latin translation by Moerbeka the figure is given as 1903, and this probably represents the original reading; cf. Lehmann-Haupt, "Zwei Hauptprobleme," pp. 109 f., 210, and Meyer, _op. cit.,_ p. 131.]