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SECOND BOOK OF KINGS XV. 225
his daughters, his property, 11. the treasures of his palace*
I carried away as plunder. The land Bet-Amukkan I trod
down as in threshing ; the whole of its inhabitants, its prop-
erty, 12. I carried off to Assyria. I who smote (? = abik-
taSunu aSkun?) Pukud, Ruhua, Lithau, 13. carried
them away from their abodes, subjugated the Aramaeans,
as many as there were of them, to my yoke 14. and took
the kingdom of their kings ; I who took possession of Kar-
dunias, on the Rabsanaeans of the land Chaldaea 15. im-
posed payment of tribute; to Asur, Slrucha, Bel**, Zir-
banit, Nebo, Tasmit, NanS,, 16. the mistress of Babylon, 234
to Nergal, (and) Laz (Las, Lds ?) , offered many splendid
oflferings*** in the city Charsakkalama". This campaign
of Tiglath-Pileser, according to the list of governors, took
place as early as the first year of the king's reign viz. 745
B. C. It seems, however, to have possessed but transient
importance. At all events Tiglath-Pileser acquiesced in
the rule of the king of Babylon, who had up to that time
occupied the throne, viz., according to the Ptolemaic canon,
Nabonassar (747— 733). We may assume that Tiglath-
Pileser contented himself with the recognition of Assyria's
supremacy by the Babylonian king. But the Assyrian
monarch, according to the list of governors, undertook a
second subsequent expedition to the river-country, on which
occasion he received the homage of Merodachbaladau, the
son of Jakin (see note on 2 Kings XX. 12), in the city
Sapija. This campaign, according to the list of governors,
* Literally : "his treasures, his palace" (Keil. u. Gesch.).
** Bel Merodach is meant; see Theolog. Studien u. Kritiken 1874
p. 342 note 2, also above p. 12 footnote **.
*** Respecting niku "offering", root HpJj ^^^ Keilinsch. u. Gesch.
p. 109 footnote **.
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