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194 THE CUNEIFORM INSCRIPTIONS AND TEE 0. T. many innumerable troops, [and] advanced against me. I joined battle with them and put them to flight, annihi- lated (?) their chariots , their implements of battle I took from them; to make their life secure, they took themselves away (root nbi!)". The passage in the monolith-inscription has been communicated above on chap. XVI. 29. a7id tldrty two kings were with him. This notice is confirmed and illustrated by the inscriptions that have been communicated, in so far as we there find Hadadezer (Ben- hadad) always taking the field in alliance with other Syrian 204 kings ; yet in the inscriptions there are uniformly added, as allies of the king, only twelve Syrian kings inclusive or exclusive of Irchulln of Hamath. The Assyrian inscriptions in this enumeration perhaps only took account of the more important names. Respecting the round number see Keilinsch. u. Gesch. p. 46. In the monolith-inscription we have only eleven allied princes individually mentioned, among these Dad'idri-Hadadezer , while nevertheless the total is reckoned as twelve. 26. nf50f? to Apheh, meaning the spot bearing this name lying off" the road leading from Damaskus to Samaria, to the East of the lake of Genezareth. The name appears with the orthography that we should expect, viz. Ap-ku, in a fragment of an historical inscription of Asarhaddon, in which the king describes the district from the city of Aphek "to the border of Samaria as far as the city Raphia" (on the Aegyptian frontier) , as 30 kaspu-kakkar or 30 double- leagues in length [XXX kas-bu kak-kar ul-tav ir Ap-ku sa pa-di mat Sa-ml-[ri-na] a-di Ir Ra- pi-hi). See the text III Rawl. 35 no. 4 (wrongly
I KINGS XX. 195 ascribed to Asurbanipal*) in the Transactions of the Soc. of Bibl. Archaeol. IV, 93, and comp. G. Smith, Assyr. Discov. pp. 312 foil.; Del. Parad. pp. 178 foil. 287. 34. and he concluded an alliance with him. As we have 205 already observed, this is directly confirmed by the cor- responding passage on Salmanassar's monolith, in which Ahab (A-ha-ab-bu) is mentioned as an ally of Benhadad- Hadadezer. See above page 186. * E. A. Budge, 'The History of Esarhaddon' London 1880 p. 115, has lately come back to the opinion that the account is really that of Asurbanipal, and not of Asarhaddon. In supporting this view he appeals mainly to the style of the passage, which he considers to be characteristic of Asurbanipal rather than of Asarhaddon. But a specific "style" does not appear at all in the extract, which is taken up with prosaic details about the events of the war; and Budge's theory breaks down through the circumstance that we have in the fragment the express statement that the Aegyptian expedition of the Assyrian king, which is referred-to, was his "tenth" (Obv. 6). At the time of this expedition, however, Tarku, the Tyrian king's "friend", was still upon the scene (Obv. 12), while according to the cylinders of Asurbanipal he had already disappeared from history during i'ue second expedition of the Assyrian. Accordingly the "tenth" campaign cannot have been that of Asurbanipal. With this tallies the in other respects important notice which occurs in the following extract (Obv. 7 foil.) : u-sa-as-bi-ta pa-nu-u-a a-na [mat Ma-gan u mat Mi-luh-hiJ §a ina pi-i nisi mat Ku-u-si u vaki Mu-sur i. e. "(In my tenth campaign) I turned my face to the land [MSgan and to the land Miluchchi], which in the mouth of the inhabitants [are called] land Kush and land Aegypt." From this passage it may be seen that the popular Babylonian term for the double kingdom of Aegypt- Aethiopia continued in the days of Asarhaddon to be Magan and Miluhhi, seeing that the name Kusu for "Miluchchi" does not exist at all before the time of Asarhaddon. In the days of Asurbanipal there was no longer any need for such an explanatory notice. It is clear that the expedition referred -to, which should be assigned to the end of the reign of Asarhaddon, agrees well, as being "the tenth", with the reign of that monarch, which lasted only thirteen years. 13* —
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