repulsed the attacks of Assurnasirpal of Assyria (883-859 B.C.) Then Shalmaneser II. of Assyria made such excellent use of a contention for the throne of Babylonia, that in the year 850 B.C. he offered sacrifice at Babylon, Borsippa, and Kutha. But it was not till the year 703 or 689 B.C. that the seal of Tiglath Adar and the images lost by Tiglath Pilesar I. were carried back to Assyria. FOOTNOTES: [306] Xenoph. "Cyrop." 7, 5; Strabo, pp. 41, 84, 544, 736, 737. [307] Strabo, p. 748; Xenoph. "Anab." 1, 5, 1 ff.; G. Hertzberg, "Feldzug der Zehntausend," s. 139 ff. [308] Beros. ap. Sync. p. 28; Herod. 1, 193; "Anab." 2, 3. [309] Herod. 1, 178-200. [310] "De Coelo," p. 503. [311] Diod. 3, 31; Cic. "De Divin." 1, 19; Jul. Afric. ap. Syncell. p. 17; Plin. "Hist. Nat." 7, 57; cf. H. Martin, "Revue Archéol." 1862, 5, 243. [312] Between 280-270 B.C. Clinton, "Fasti Hell." ad ann. 279. [313] Abydeni Fragm. 9, ed. Müller. [314] Berosi Fragm. 1, ed. Müller. [315] Abyd. Fragm. 1, 2, ed. Müller; Berosi Fragm. 5. [316] In the Armenian Eusebius, p. 10, ed. Schoene, the name is Lancharis. [317] G. Smith, "Bibl. Arch." 3, 531. [318] So in the Armenian Eusebius; in Syncellus it is five stadia, _i.e._ 3,000 feet long. [319] Eusebius, p. 14, ed. Mai; Syncell. p. 30; Abydeni Fragm. 3 ed. Müller; Lucian, "De Dea Syria," 12. [320] Eusebius gives 33,091. As Syncellus enumerates the sares, neres, and sosses, the number given in the text is the correct one, or must be replaced by 34,091. The basis of the calculation which Syncellus has adopted in the four first dynasties of Berosus has been thoroughly established by Lepsius ("Chronol. der Ægypter," s. 78). [321] The period of the fourth dynasty, the eleven kings, is filled up to 248 years from the marginal note on the Armenian manuscripts of Eusebius. [322] G. Smith, "Assyrian Discoveries," p. 185-195. I retain the reading "Sisit" as against Hasisadra because of the "Sisythes" of Lucian. [323] According to Bunsen, "Ægypt." 5, 2, 61 ff., the Hebrews originally were acquainted with only seven patriarchs before the flood; see below. [324] Gen. ix. 20, 28; xi. 2-9. [325] Plin. "Hist. Nat." 6, 30. Hipparenum can be nothing but Sipparenum, or Sipparenorum. [326] If the number 34,091 be correct (p. 241, note 2), the year 2447 B.C. would be the first year of the historical era. [327] It is pointed out by Von Gutschmid in the Rhein. Mus. 8, 252. [328] Gen. x. 22; x. 8, 10. [329] Menke, "Jahrb. für classiche Philologie," 1862, s. 545. [330] Aesch. "Pers." 16. [331] The name Nanchundi occurs also in the compounds Istar-Nanchundi, p. 253. [332] G. Smith, "Assurbanipal," p. 200, 234-236, 249-251. As in two passages 1,635 years are given with quotation of the Neres and Sosses, this number must be kept in the third passage instead of 1,535 years. The conquest of Susa did not follow immediately on the conquest of Babylon, in the year 647; see below.