“Gazzāni to the resting-place he has decided upon,(84) to the fortress camp of Kirkišāti, to Zakar-gimilli (king?) of the Siḫites, to wide-spreading Kirkišāti, to Ḫarri-si’iši, to Dûr-Dungi, and the neighbourhood of Tengurgur (?) may he go forth, and to the land of Ḫalman, the place to which his eyes are set, may he go. By the command of the enemy, the Lullubite, may he accomplish (it)— As for him, his horses, his soldiers, his chariots, in peace to the land of Ḫalman have approached, and the enemy, the Lullubite, whether from before him, or from beside him, or from his right, or from his left, did not cease (?) from him, and shall not destroy him, shall not make him fail, shall not cause him to diminish.” That the majority of the countries mentioned are near to Babylonia, is against the probability that Kirkišāti (if it be a country) is the land of the Girgashites, unless Ḫalman be Aleppo, and not the Mesopotamian tract of the same name; or unless, being a “numerous people,” they had sent out colonies to the neighbourhood of Babylonia, as did the Amorites; or emigrants, like the Jebusites. Whatever be the explanation, however, the above fragment is exceedingly interesting, the more so, that in the first line of the extract as given above, the person spoken of is to all appearance Gazzāni, which is possibly the completion of the name of the father of Tudḫula, and is written, as far as it is preserved, in the same way.(85) It is noteworthy that the prefix for country is absent in every case, except that of Ḫalman. Moabites. Concerning the early history and state of the Moabites we get no information from the inscriptions of Babylonia and Assyria, though the name Muab occurs on the base of one of the six colossal inscriptions at Luxor (_Patriarchal Palestine_, p. 21). For a time, in all probability, it was like an Egyptian province, or, at least, greatly under Egyptian influence. It is not until comparatively late times that the Moabites come before us in Assyrian history, and the same thing may be said with regard to the Edomites, Ammonites, and other petty states. As these will be referred to incidentally in the chapters which follow, it has been thought well not to treat of them here, in order to avoid repetition as much as possible. CHAPTER X. CONTACT OF THE HEBREWS WITH THE ASSYRIANS. Aššur-naṣir-âpli II.—Shalmaneser II.—Tiglath-pileser III. (Pul)—Shalmaneser IV. (Elulaeus)—Sargon—Sennacherib—Esarhaddon—Aššur-banî-âpli (the great and noble Asnappar)—The downfall of Assyria.