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238 THE CUNEIFORM INSCRIPTIONS AND TEE 0. T. (Idlbi'ilu) in line Ifi, of Samaria in line 18, and in line 17 of "former campaigns" of the king*, may be conjectured to refer to the expeditions against Syria and Israel in the years 734— 732. Of the "summarizing inscriptions" we have one that is briefer than the other, composed at a time previous to the Judaeo-Ephraimite war, and not later than 743 — 42** Layard pi. 17. 18. The other longer inscription is unfor- tunately broken in the middle. It was not edited till the 18**" year of the king's reign, and stands in II Rawl. 67.*** In addition to the latter there has meanwhile been discov- ered the first part of a parallel inscription designated no. 90, red, which certainly agrees in essential points with the above longer inscription, but is on the whole briefer in form and exhibits several peculiarities and also varieties of detail. This I have published in my essay "Zur Kritik der Inschriften Tiglath-Pilesers &c." (with a photograph appended), so far as it has been preserved, that is, in the opening lines, and with the exception of their commence- ment. All these inscriptions still bear , as I have already said, Tiglath-Pileser's name at their head. We cannot 247 therefore doubt that they originated from him. An ex- tremely valuable supplement to both classes of inscriptions is to be found in the list of governors, from which alone we gain accurate information as to the date of the king's campaign against Samaria and Damaskus (see below). * The words of the mah-ra-a-ti, transcribed cuneiform are: ina gir-ri-ti-ja ** See the proof in Zur Kritik der Insch. Tigl.-Pil. &c. p. 30. *** Oil the latter inscription compare especially Ch. Eneberg , inscription de Tiglat-Piliiser II, in the Journ. Asiat. VI (1875) pp. 441 —472.
SECOND BOOK OF KINGS XV. 239 The Impression that we gain from these inscriptions respecting Tiglath-Pileser corresponds throughout to what we know about him from the Bible. Nowhere else, as is well known, is the king mentioned. He appears to us throughout in these records as a powerful warrior-prince, who has subjugated beneath his sceptre the Western Asiatic territory from the Median frontier-mountains in the East* to the Mediterranean sea in the West, including a part of Cappadocia, as we have it recorded in the opening of his great triumphal inscription II Rawl. 67 lines 1 foil. : 1. I'- kal Tukul-ti-abal-i-sar-[ra sarru rabu-u sarru dan-nu §ar kissati sar m&t Assur sar B§,b-ilu gar mS,t Suj**-mi-ri u Akkadi sar kib-rat arba- ti 2. dannu kar-du §a ina*** tu-kul-ti [Asur bili-su kul-lat la ma-gi-ri-su kima tar-bl-ti(?) u-dak-ki-ku a-bu]-bis is-pu-nu-ma zi-ki-kis im-nu-u 3. sarru sa ina zi-kir Asur Sa-raas u Mar-duk ill rab^ti [itt ala-ku-m a] ul-tu nar mS,rra-ti sa Bit- Ja-ki -ni a-di sad Bi-ik-ni §a napah §am-§i4. u ti^m-tiv sa sul-mi sam-si a-di mS,t Mu-us-ri, ul-tu ITR a-di irib(?)j matati i-pi-lu-248 ma f-bu-su §ar-ru-us-si-in "1. Palace of Tiglath- * This definition of frontier strengthens the doubt whether Tiglath- Pileser can have actually penetrated beyond the frontier of iledia to the East (Keil. u. Gesch. p. 277). On this compare K. T. Patkanoff's essay, written in Russian, "On the supposed campaign of Tiglath- Pileser to the banks of the Indus" Petersburg 1879. ** The words placed in brackets— broken away from the tablet are supplied from the parallel inscription no. 90 which is preserved uninjured at this passage. *** Such is the text of the original collated by me. f In the text there stands AN. PA, which elsewhere designates the god Nebo, but here can only mean a quarter of the world, as the contrasted term indicates. —
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