[910] On this subject, cf. Maspero, The Struggle of the Nations, pp. 468 and 587.
[911] Cf. Winckler, Ausgrabungen, etc., 1907, p. 30.
[912] Cf. above, [p. 53, note 1].
[913] Ed. Meyer, Gesch. des Alterthums, i. p. 331. See, however, Schrader, Bab.-Ass. Gesch., pp. 162-3, who identifies the ‘Upper Sea’ of the text (published by Winckler, Inschriften Tigl.-Pilesers I.) with Lake Van; he is supported by Sayce and others. Ménant thought that the Caspian was referred to, and Rawlinson the Mediterranean, but neither of the latter theories agrees with the geography of the expedition, on which see Maspero, Struggle of the Nations, pp. 653-4.
[914] See what is said on this subject above, pp. [57-8].
[915] The Annals of the Xth year record the number as 30, Winckler, op. cit., p. 28, l. 10.
[916] (?) Tell Bashar, in difficult country between Aintab and Carchemish.
[917] We are inclined to place this range in the Amanus, on the Cilician frontiers. The treble-walled city of Kibshuna (Maspero, Struggle of the Nations, pp. 655-6) recalls strongly the defences of Sinjerli (see above, [p. 272]); possibly it is to be identified with Kabessus on the Sarus. The route of the Assyrian army, descending southward by the passes of the Pyramus, might easily avoid Marash, which is not mentioned in the record.
[918] Maspero, op. cit., pp. 657-8. The inscription on the rocky sea front at Nahr-el-Kelb is hardly legible; and our photograph yields no fresh evidence on this point.
[919] Cf. Schrader, Keilinschriften und Geschichts-forschung, pp. 225-236. Maspero, Struggle of the Nations, pp. 589, and note 3.