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96 THE CUNEIFORM INSCRIPTIONS AND THE 0. T.
404 Samaria. Tribute of Pharaoh of Aegypt, Sam-
sieh of Arabia and the Sabaean It'amar*. Botta
75, 3—7.
714. Eighth year. Second war against Ursa of Ar-
menia. Campaign against Urzana of Musasir.
Capture of this town. Botta 75, 10 foil. 76. 77.
120, 1—7.
713. Ninth year. Campaign against Amitassi of
Karalla and some other Eastern potentates and
territories. Botta 120, 8 foil. 80. 81, 1— 8.
712. Tenth year. War against Tarchunazi of Mllid-
Melitene and conquest of Til-Garimmi. Botta
81, 9 foil. 82. 83, 1— 12.
711. Eleventh year. Intervention in favour of Tar-
chular of Gamgum. War against Azuri of
Ashdod and conquest of that town. The king
of Aethiopia sues for peace. Botta 65, 1. 83,
13. 84. 155, 1—12.
710. Twelfth year. War with Merodach-Baladan. His
dethronement. Botta 65, 1 foil. 66. 85. 86.
87. 88, I— 11 (with the parallels from Hall V).
709. Thirteenth year. Continuation of the war with
Merodach-Baladan. Botta 112, 3 (from below).
111. 110. 109. 108 ;— 89. 90.91, 1.2**;
Tribute of the Cyprian kings. Botta 91, 3— 10.
* i. e. "lOXi^n^- Comp. above Vol. I, p. 132. See further in
Keilinsch. u. Geschichtsf. p. 40.
** From this year, i. e. 709 B. C, the eponymate of Mannu-ki-
A§ur-li', Sargon dates his first year as king of Babylon (see Smith in
Lepsius' Zeitschrift 1869, pp. 95. 96). This exactly agrees with the
Ptolemaic Canon, which reckons the year 709 as the first of Arkeanos
or Sargon; Assyr.-Babyl. Keilinsch. p. 164. See the dates of the clay
tablets furnished in the "Chronological Addenda".