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86 THE CVNEIFOBM INSCBIPTIONS AND THE 0. T.
H. IV. pp. 735 foil. These annals cover the first fifteen
years of the king's reign B. C. 722/1— 707/6.
— ;
2. The great, summarizing triumphal inscription at
Khorsabad; Botta 93— 104 (Hall IV) ; 121— 132 (Hall
VII) and chiefly the slabs in the Hall No. X : pi. 144
154. There belong also to this list the slabs of Hall
No. VIII, which have come down in a very fragmentary
state. The inscription has been edited, translated and
commented upon by Oppert and M^nant in the Journ.
Asiatique 1863 foil. S^r. VI, 1 foil. A revised translation
has been given by Oppert in 'Records of the Past' IX,
3— 20. This inscription also extends over the events of
the first fifteen years of the monarch's reign.
3. The bull-inscriptions of Khorsab§,d ; Botta 22—62;
Oppert, Dour-Sark. pp. 3 foil.
4. The inscriptions on the pavement at the palace-gates
(pav^ des portes) ; Botta pi. 1 — 21.
5. The inscriptions on the reverse-side of the slabs; Botta
161— 179; see M^nant, les inscriptions des revers des
plaques, Paris 1865 fol.
6. The votive-tablets which refer to the founding of
Dlir-Sarrukin, edited and translated by Oppert, Dour-Sark.
p. 23 foil.
7. The inscription on the clay cylinder I Rawl. 36
Oppert ibid. p. II foil. This has come down to us in
several copies. Compare meanwhile D. G. Lyon, 'The
cylinder- inscription of Sargon 11', Leipzig 1882.
8. A second still unpublished cylinder-inscription ; G.
Smith, Discoveries pp. 288 foil.
9. The slab-inscription of Nimrtid, Layard 33. 34, the
oldest of all Sargon's inscriptions, and the only one which