[Footnote 22: There were about thirteen kings of the Eighth Dynasty, and, though their names are completely wanting in the Kings' List, some of them are preserved in records concerning their relations with Assyria. In the gap between Nabû-mukîn-apli and Shamash-mudammik we may probably place Sibir, a Babylonian king whom Ashur-nasir-pal mentions as having founded Atlila, a city in Zamua, which he himself rebuilt as a royal residence and renamed Dûr-Ashur (cf. "Annals," p. 325). It is improbable that Sibir was one of the missing rulers of the Kassite Dynasty, the only other period to which his reign could be assigned. For the broken name [....-akh]ê-iddina, possibly that of another ruler of this period, see "Chronicles," II., p. 63.] [Footnote 23: _Op. cit.,_ II., p. 81 f.] [Footnote 24: See Fig. 58; and cf. "Boundary-Stones in the Brit. Mus.," pp. 51 ff.] [Footnote 25: Cf. "Annals," pp. lvii. ff. Nabû-shum-ishkun's name, attested by "Syn. Hist.," III., 9 ff., appears to be given as [Nabù-sh]um-ukîn in "Chron.," II., p. 64.] [Footnote 26: Sukhi lay on the middle Euphrates, near the mouth of the Khâbûr. Its position is accurately indicated by Tiglath-pileser I., who records that he plundered the Aramean Akhlamî from the neighbourhood of Sukhi up to Carchemish in one day (cf. "Annals," p. 73). For a later monument from the district, see below, p. 205 f.] [Footnote 27: Cf. "Annals," p. 351 f.] [Footnote 28: See Plate XXIII. For a translation of the memorial, see "Bab. Boundary-Stones and Memorial Tablets in the Brit. Mus.," pp. 120 ff. The tablet was found in a clay coffer, in which it had been placed at a later period by Nabopolassar, together with clay impressions of the sculptured scene, to preserve the design of the relief in case the tablet itself should eventually be broken.] [Footnote 29: See King, "The Gates of Shalmaneser," pp. 18 ff., 31 f.] [Footnote 30: Cf. "Chronicles," II., p. 66 ff.] [Footnote 31: Cf. "Keilins. Bibl.," I., p. 202 f. At this point the record of the "Synchronistic History" ceases; and it is only with the reign of Nabonassar, the second king of the Ninth Dynasty, that our knowledge of the Babylonian succession becomes fuller. In addition to the evidence afforded by the Kings' List, the information contained in the Babylonian Chronicle and the Ptolemaic Canon then becomes available.] [Footnote 32: See Weissbach, "Babylonische Miscellen," pp. 9 ff.] [Footnote 33: See above, p. 200, n. 1.] [Footnote 34: He was an Assyrian general named Pulu, the leader of the revolt, and he took the famous name of Tiglath-pileser to mark his assumption of royal rank; but he retained his own name in Babylon (see p. 268).]