[Footnote 2: That is in the person of his commander-in-chief, Dayan-Assur.] [Footnote 3: The modern Van.] [Footnote 4: Parthia.] [Footnote 5: This refers to his assuming the eponymy a second time after completing a reign of thirty years. At this period the Assyrian kings assumed the eponymy on first ascending the throne, and the fact that Shalmaneser took the same office again in his thirty-first year shows that a cycle of thirty years was in existence.] [Footnote 6: The Gozan of the Old Testament.] [Footnote 7: Haran or Harran in the Old Testament; called Carrhæ by the classical geographers.] [Footnote 8: Andia was afterward incorporated into Assyria by Sargon.] THE EPIGRAPHS ACCOMPANYING THE SCULPTURES I The tribute of 'Su'a of the country of the Guzanians: silver, gold, lead, articles of bronze, sceptres for the King's hand, horses (and) camels with double backs: I received. II The tribute of Yahua[1] son of Khumri[2]: silver, gold, bowls of gold, vessels of gold, goblets of gold, pitchers of gold, lead, sceptres for the King's hand, (and) staves: I received. III The tribute of the country of Muzri[3]: camels with double backs, an ox of the river 'Saceya,[4] horses, _wild asses, elephants_, (and) apes: I received. IV The tribute of Merodach-pal-itstsar of the country of the 'Sukhians[5]: silver, gold, pitchers of gold, tusks of the wild bull, staves, antimony, garments of many colors, (and) linen: I received. V The tribute of Garparunda of the country of the Patinians: silver, gold, lead, bronze, gums, articles of bronze, tusks of wild bulls, (and) _ebony_[6]: I received. [Footnote 1: Jehu.] [Footnote 2: Omri.] [Footnote 3: This is the Armenian Muzri, not Egypt.] [Footnote 4: This would seem from the sculpture to mean a rhinoceros. Lenormant, however, identifies it with the Yak.] [Footnote 5: Nomadic tribes in the southwest of Babylonia.] [Footnote 6: The word means literally "pieces of strong wood."] INSCRIPTION OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR TRANSLATED BY REV. J.M. RODWELL, M.A.