The statements of the astronomical canon do not agree with these inscriptions. With the canon, this period, distracted by contests in which for the most part Suzub is at the head of Babylon and the city of Babel is not in the power of Sennacherib, was the reign of Aparanadius, or, as we supposed, of Assurnadin, which in the canon lasts from 699 to 694 B.C. The year 693 is given to Regebelus, who is succeeded by Mesesimordakus from the year 692 to 688 B.C. After this the canon places an interregnum of eight years (688-680 B.C.). If we are to attempt to harmonise the two, Regebelus and Mesesimordakus may be regarded as viceroys, to whom, after the capture of Babylonia, Sennacherib entrusted the rule of the country in those years. The interregnum which follows would then be explained by the fact that Sennacherib reigned over Babylonia without a viceroy from the year 688 B.C. But in none of the inscriptions preserved does Sennacherib name himself in his title, king of Sumir and Accad, or king of Babel. The astronomical canon gave us the name of Sargon at the time when he ruled directly over Babylon; why is not Sennacherib's name mentioned in a similar position? It is not impossible that new rebellions followed the capture of Babylon, in which Regebelus and Mesesimordakus were leaders; but it is certain that Babylonia, if not South Chaldæa, was under the dominion of Assyria at the death of Sennacherib. FOOTNOTES: [214] Flandin gives the long and short sides of the rectangle doubled at 6784 metres; the inscription which reckons in the whole circuit the building of the palace which juts out from the rest, at 16,280 cubits (_ammat_). The Babylonian and Assyrian cubits are both = 525 millimetres; Lepsius, "Abh. Berl. Akad." 1853; "Monats-Berichte Ders." 1877. Vol. I. p. 305. [215] Rawlinson, "Monarch," 1^2, 324 ff. [216] Oppert, "Dour Sarkayan," p. 23, 24. [217] Oppert, "Records of the Past," 7, 55, 56. [218] Oppert, "Dour Sarkayan," p. 8. [219] In Ménant, _loc. cit._ p. 181. [220] Oppert, "Dour Sarkayan," p. 27, 28; Oppert et Ménant, "Doc. juridiques," p. 168. [221] Ménant, "Annal." 162. In Oppert, "Records of the Past," 7, 30, the fourth canton is called Pappa. Above, p. 86. [222] Inscription of Nimrud in Ménant, _loc. cit._ p. 206. He reads two talents 30 minæ of gold; G. Smith reads 11 talents of gold. [223] Oppert, "Records of the Past," 7, 32. [224] Oppert, "Records of the Past," 7, 35, 36, 37. Vol I., p. 520. [225] Annals in Ménant, _loc. cit._ p. 164. [226] Annals in Ménant, p. 164; Oppert, _loc. cit._ 7, 33. [227] Ménant p. 183. [228] Oppert, _loc cit._ 7, 34. [229] Ménant, p. 184. [230] Ménant p. 167; Oppert, _loc. cit._ 7, 37. [231] G. Smith, "Disc." p. 289. [232] Oppert, _loc. cit._ 7, 27; Ménant, _loc. cit._ p. 192, 195, 200, 201, 205, 207. [233] In Ménant, _loc. cit._ p. 188. [234] Above, p. 93; Oppert, "Records of the Past," 7, 46-51. [235] Ménant, "Babylone," p. 157.