[324] G. Smith, "Assyr. Canon," p. 39. [325] Sayce, "Records of the Past," 7, 138. [326] Talbot, "Records of the Past," 3, 104-106. [327] Talbot, _loc. cit._ 3, 114. [328] Talbot, _loc. cit._; Ménant, "Annal." p. 243. [329] Ménant, _loc. cit._ p. 248. [330] G. Smith, "Disc." p. 314. [331] Ménant, p. 248. [332] Ménant, p. 247. [333] Talbot, "Records of the Past," 3, 119; Ménant, p. 245. [334] Talbot, _loc. cit._ p. 118. [335] G. Smith, "Assyr. Canon," p. 137. [336] Talbot, "Records," 3, 116. [337] Talbot, _loc. cit._ p. 106, 116, 117. [338] So E. Schrader translates. [339] Vol. I. p. 547; Ménant, _loc. cit._ p. 242. [340] Talbot, "Records," 3, 106. [341] G. Smith, "Assyrian Canon," p. 137, 138. [342] E. Schrader, "K. A. T." s. 228; G. Smith, "Assyrian Canon," p. 139; Talbot, "Records," 3, 108; the name of Eteander of Paphus is also read on golden armlets, found at Kurion. Cf. G. Smith, "Assurbanipal," p. 31. [343] The year 697 is obtained for the accession of Manasses, by calculating the reigns of the kings of Judah from the date of the taking of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, _i.e._ from the year 586 B.C. As Hezekiah must have ascended the throne in 728 B.C. (p. 17, _n._), he reigned no doubt two years longer than the Books of Kings allow, which allot to him a reign of 29 years. [344] Chron. xxxiii. 11-13. [345] Ezra iv. 2, 9. [346] G. Smith, "Disc." p. 212. [347] G. Smith, "Assyr. Canon." p. 141. [348] In Eusebius, "Chron." I. p. 35, ed. Schöne. [349] Oppert, "Mémoires de l' Acad. des Inscript.," 1869, 1, 578. G. Smith, "Assyrian Canon," p. 169. [350] E. Schrader, "K. A. T." s. 212. [351] Psammetichus begins to reign in the year 664, according to the Egyptian reckoning, as will be shown below. The list of Manetho allots eight years to his father Necho. Necho, therefore, began to reign in 672 B.C., _i.e._ in the year in which Esarhaddon conquered Egypt. Nechepsus and Stephinates, whom Manetho places six and seven years before Necho, belong to the family of Psammetichus. Perhaps they were at the head of Isis, under Tirhaka; then Necho, the son of Nechepsus, would have made himself noticed by Esarhaddon by going over to him. [352] G. Smith, "Assurbanipal," p. 20 ff. Haigh, "Zur aeg. Sprache," 1871; s. 71 ff. The Muntimianche of Thebes may be the Month-em-ha of the inscription of the temple of Mut at Thebes, the pious foundations of which it enumerates; in a slab found in this temple he is called: "Hereditary lord, prince of Patores, prophet of Ammon." Brugsch, "Hist, of Egypt," II. 270. [353] Ménant, "Annal." p. 249. [354] Private documents on the sale of lands, slaves, on loans from the time of Esarhaddon, are in existence, belonging to the years 680, 677, 676, 674, 671. Oppert et Ménant, "Docum. jurid." Cf. G. Smith, "Disc." p. 415 ff. CHAPTER VIII. ASSURBANIPAL'S WARS AND VICTORIES.