[545] Herod. 3, 115; Pliny, "Hist. Nat." 7, 57. [546] At a later time we meet with the name Prettanian islands. Ynis Prydein, _i.e._ island of Prydein, was the name given by the Welsh to their land; Müllenhoff, _loc. cit._ s. 88 ff, 93 ff. [547] Helbig, "Commercio dell ambra," p. 10, _n._ 4. On the amber in the tombs east of the Apennines, pp. 15, 16. [548] Müllenhoff, _loc. cit._ s. 223. [549] Strabo, p. 168. [550] Joel iii. 4 ff. On the date of Joel, _supra_, p. 260, _n._ 2. De Wette-Schrader, "Einleitung," s. 454. According to the data established above, the minority of Joash falls between 837 and 825 B.C. [551] The older Zechariah ix. 3, and De Wette-Schrader, "Einleitung," s. 480. [552] Vol. i. p. 314. [553] Vol. i. p. 314. [554] Ezekiel xxvii. CHAPTER XIII. THE RISE OF ASSYRIA. The campaigns which Tiglath Pilesar, king of Asshur, undertook towards the West about the end of the twelfth century, and which carried him to the Upper Euphrates and into Northern Syria, remained without lasting result. The position which Tiglath Pilesar then had won on the Euphrates was not maintained by his successors in any one instance. More than 200 years after Tiglath Pilesar we find Tiglath Adar II. (889-883 B.C.) again in conflict with the same opponents who had given his forefather such trouble--with the mountaineers of the land of Nairi, the district between the highland valley of Albak on the Greater Zab and the Zibene-Su, the eastern source of the Tigris. The son and successor of this Tiglath Adar, Assurnasirpal, was the first whom we see again undertaking more distant campaigns; the successful results of which are the basis of a considerable extension of the Assyrian power.