Volume 1

A history of Babylonia and Assyria / [R.W. Rogers] ; rev., largely rewritten, and illustrated.

  • Robert William Rogers
Date:
[1915], ©1915
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Credit: A history of Babylonia and Assyria / [R.W. Rogers] ; rev., largely rewritten, and illustrated. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2. The next king, Marduk-balatsu-ikbi, came into conflict with the Assyrians and was defeated by Shamshi-Adad V (Synchronistic History, col. Ill, lines 6-9). He appears to have been followed by Bau-akh-iddin, whose name comes next in the Synchronistic History (col. IV, lines 1-2), as having been carried away captive to Assyria, though he is not mentioned in the Dynastic Chronicle, which gives immediately (Reverse line 7) after Marduk-zakir-shum the statement: ^Tor [ . . . ] years there was no king in the land.’^ This must have been the period during which the Assyrians, probably under Shamshi-Adad V, ravaged the country (Syn¬ chronistic History, col. IV, lines 3-10), though the Assyrian king’s name has been broken off from the tablet. 3. The first king after the interregnum was Erba-Marduk, son of Marduk-zakin-shum (Dy¬ nastic Chronicle, Reverse lines 8, 9).^ 4. The 19th king in the list is probably Nabu- shum-ishkun II, though the remains of the name on the King List, which seem to be Nabu- MU-SA-? do not, it must be confessed, seem well to fit this hypothesis.^ 5. With Nabunasir, the twentieth king, we are at last upon absolutely firm ground. His name is perfectly clear upon King List A., and besides this is in the Babylonian Chronicle (col. I, 1 King, Chronicles, etc., ii, p. 66. 2 See Winckler, Forschungen, i, pp. 354, ff., but compare Schnabel, Mitteilungen der Vorderasiatischen Gesellschaft, 1908, pp. 87, 88.