B.C.
Tukulti-Ninip II., son, 890
Ashur-nâṣir-pal III., son, 884
Shulmanu-asharid (Shalmaneser) II., 859
Shamshi-Adad V., 824
Adad-nirari III., 811
Shulmanu-asharid (Shalmaneser) III., 782
Ashur-dan III., 772
Ashur-nirari II., 754
Tukulti-apil-esharra (Tiglath-pileser, Pul) III., 745
Shulmanu-asharid (Shalmaneser) IV., 726
Sharru-ukin (Sargon) II., 721
Sin-aḫê-erba (Sennacherib), son, 704
Ashur-aḫ-iddin (Esarhaddon), son, 680
Ashur-bâni-pal (Asnapper), son, 668
Ashur-etil-ilâni, son, 625
Sin-shum-lîshir, (?)
Sin-shar-ishkun, (?)
Fall of Nineveh, 607
III. Weights And Measures
I. Weights
1 shekel = 180 _šê_.
1 mina = 60 shekels.
1 talent = 60 minas.
The weight of the mina may be reckoned in round numbers as 500 grams.
II. Measures Of Capacity
_Early Scale_
1 GIN = 180 _šê_ (?).
1 ḲA = 60 GIN.
1 GUR = 300 ḲA.
_Later Scale_
1 GUR = 180 ḲA.
III. Measures Of Length
1 ell (U) = 60 _ubanu_.
1 _ḳânu_ = 6 ells.
1 GAR = 2 _ḳânu_.
1 KASBU = 1,800 GAR.
On other measures see A. D. D., ii., pp. 197-218. The ell is about half a
metre.
IV. Measures Of Surface
1 GIN = 180 _šê._
1 SAR = 60 GIN.
1 GAN = 1,800 SAR.
The area of the SAR was one GAR square, or 6 metres square. Areas were
also measured by the amount of corn required to sow them, or their average
yield, that is by the GUR and ḲA.
V. Measures Of Time
1 day = 12 double hours.
1 month = 30 days, average.
1 year = 12 months, average.
Further details may be obtained from Zimmern’s _Das Princip unserer
Zeit-und Raumteilung_, in the _Berichten d. philolog. histor. Classe d.
Königl. Sächs. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig_. November 14,
1901.
IV. Bibliography Of The Later Periods
THE NEW BABYLONIAN EMPIRE
*Nabopolassar.*—Strassmaier published nineteen texts in _Z. A._, iv., pp.
141-45, of which three are transcribed and translated in _K. B._, iv., pp.
177-81. Dr. Pinches gave another, _C. T._, iv., p. 14, and another in
Peek-Pinches, p. 3. Dr. Moldenke gave nine other texts in his _Cuneiform
Texts from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York_.
*Nebuchadrezzar II.*—Strassmaier published 460 texts in _Hefts V.-VI._, of
the _Babylonische Texte_, of which thirty-one are transcribed and
translated in _K. B._, iv., pp. 180-201, and forty are discussed in
Kohler-Peiser’s _Aus Babylonischen Rechtsleben_. Two texts are published
by Pinches, _C. T._, iv., p. 38, two more in Peiser’s _Babylonische
Verträge_, six texts from the Liverpool Museum were published by
Strassmaier in the _Actes du VI. Congrès Internationale des Orientalistes,
1883_. Some of the above texts belong, however, to the reign of
Nebuchadrezzar III.
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