Jerusalem captured 587 B.C. See also Jer. xxxix, 1, 2; 2 Kings xxv. Footnote 45: 572 B.C. Footnote 46: Jer. 1, 38. Footnote 47: 547 B.C. Footnote 48: 549 B.C. Footnote 49: W. St. Chad Boscawen, Trans. Vic. Ins., Vol. XVIII, No. 70, p. 117. Footnote 50: Western Asia Inscriptions, Vol. I, pl. 68, col. lines 19. Footnote 51: Jeremiah li, 39-57; also Daniel v, 1. Footnote 52: The newly acquired evidence of the tablets seems to indicate that Gobyras, who commanded the armies of Cyrus, was Darius the Median, who acted as the viceroy of Cyrus on the throne of Babylon. Gobyras, the Ugbaru of the inscriptions, being formerly prefect of Gutium, or Kurdistan, was ruler of a district which embraced Ecbatana, the Median capital, and the province of the Medes, and was also, as his name indicates, a Proto-Mede, or Kassite, by birth. Xenophon states that the capture of Babylon was effected by Gobyras, and that his division was the first to reach the palace. Cyrus himself did not enter Babylon until later in the year, namely, on the third day of Marchesvan, four months after, when he “proclaimed peace, to all Babylon, and Gobyras his governor, and governors, he appointed.” Footnote 53: W. St. Chad Boscawen, Trans. Vic. Ins., Vol. XVIII, page 131. Footnote 54: Herodotus, I, 107, 122. Footnote 55: Darius Hystaspes reigned from 549 to 486 B.C. Footnote 56: Column I, line 3. Achæmenes was the last king independent of Persia, and therefore the kings after Cyrus declared that they were his descendants. It is supposed that he was superseded by Phraortes, the Median king (657-635) as it was he who first subdued the Persians. Phraortes was the great grandfather of Cyrus, who was born 599 B.C. Footnote 57: Col. I, line 7. Footnote 58: The name of this province appears to be derived from Susun, signifying a “lily.” Footnote 59: Col. III, line 41. Footnote 60: This list of nations and provinces found at Persepolis is of great importance. It was executed after the first expedition of Darius to the Greek nations 496, B. C, or still later, and many Hellenic nations are enumerated as being subdued to the Persian power. Footnote 61: If Dr. Oppert’s version is correct this text gives us the first mention of the name of Ahriman to be found in the inscriptions, although the warring of the evil elements against the good is introduced in a Chaldean legend of the creation, which will be noticed in the following chapter. Footnote 62: Commentaire sur le livre d’Esther, p. 4. CHAPTER III. THE POETRY AND MYTHOLOGY OF THE TABLETS.