A letter about the chieftains of the Kumuḫai
Another letter-fragment only preserves the opening address.[880] Another very defective letter[881] with the same introduction refers to Dûr-Sargon,
“in the district of Kurban are excessively great floods, they go on.”
We know from another source that this was the case, in b.c. 708, when the floods came into the lower part of the [pg 346] city, and the tribute could not be levied in the district.[882] Yet another fragment, opening in precisely the same manner, refers to a certain Nabû-eṭir-napshâte and the city of Kalḫu.[883] Here also we have too little left to make out any connected sense.
VI. Letters From The Last Year Of Shamash-Shum-Ukîn
The period well known
Another period on which the letters throw considerable light is the close of the reign of Shamash-shum-ukîn in Babylon. This was coeval with the suppression of a great combined rebellion against the rule of Assyria. From the historical texts of Ashurbânipal's reign we know the names of many of the actors in that great struggle. They are frequently referred to in the letters. Already G. Smith, in his History of Assurbanipal, 1871, had used the information given by some of the letters. This was utilized by C. P. Tiele in his Babylonisch-assyrische Geschichte.
The case of Nabû-bêl-shumâte