merely calls himself king of Asshur. If in the documents relating to his buildings in Babylon as well as on the Babylonian brick already mentioned he calls himself king of Babel, it follows that these inscriptions belong to the period after the war with his brother. G. Smith, "Disc." p. 378, 380. [380] G. Smith, "Assurb." p. 199; Ménant, _loc. cit._ p. 288. [381] Ménant, _loc. cit._ p. 293; G. Smith, _loc. cit._ p. 165-168, 181. [382] G. Smith, "Disc." p. 349 ff. If Babylon fell in the sixth war, 648 B.C., the destruction of Susa at the end of the eighth war cannot have taken place earlier than in the year 645 B.C. [383] G. Smith, "Disc." p. 371; "Assurb." p. 237, 241, 243, 304, 306; Ménant, _loc. cit._ p. 291. [384] Ezekiel xxxii. 24. [385] G. Smith, "Assurb." p. 299; "Assyr. Canon," p. 148. [386] G. Smith, "Disc." p. 370. [387] G. Smith, _loc. cit._ p. 370. [388] Joshua xix. 29. [389] Herod. 2, 157. [390] Diod. 1, 67. [391] Beginning of Cylinder C. in G. Smith, "Disc." p. 377. [392] Above, p. 108. G. Smith, "Assurb." p. 308. [393] End of Cylinder A. in G. Smith, "Disc." p. 372 ff. [394] Place, "Ninive." Pl. 57. CHAPTER IX. THE CONSTITUTION, ARMY, AND ART OF THE ASSYRIANS. "Asshur was a cedar in Lebanon," so the prophet Ezekiel tells us; "a shadowing thicket, and of a tall stature, with fair branches, and his top was among the thick boughs. The waters made him great, the flood set him up on high; with her stream she went round about his plants, and sent her conduits unto all the trees of the field. Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were great, and his branches became strong because of the multitude of waters, and spread themselves out. All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations. Then was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches. The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him; the cypresses were not like his boughs, and the planes were not like his branches. No tree in the garden of God was like to him in beauty. I (Jehovah) have made him fair by the multitude of his branches, and all the trees of Eden envied him."[395] Babylon and Asshur are two stems springing out of the same root. The younger could borrow from the elder her religion, her ritual, her models in art and industry, and finally her writing; and along with this those scientific acquisitions, by no means contemptible, which had been made on the Euphrates. The peculiar characteristic of the younger branch rests on its warlike power, which (nurtured in those long struggles in the Zagrus and in the Armenian mountains) at last far exceeded the power of the Babylonians.