[970] Sayce, The Cuneiform Inscr. of Van; op. cit., xiv. p. 642-649, also xx. pp. 18, 19.
[971] This must be regarded as the minimum extent of the Urartian conquests, inasmuch as the source of information is Assyrian, being drawn from Annals of Tiglath-Pileser, p. 743, ll. 59-62.
[972] Maspero, op. cit., p. 146 and note 3.
[973] Annals of Tiglath-Pileser, iii. ll. 59, 73.
[974] Cf. [p. 271]. He was the grandson of the earlier ruler of that name, and son of Barzar. For a reflection of these local wars, cf. the monument of Sinjerli described on [p. 280]. For a full discussion and bibliography of these incidents, cf. Maspero, op. cit., p. 150.
[975] From local geographical considerations, this place may perhaps be identical with Killiz. But cf. Tiele, Bab. Ass. Gesch., p. 230; Hommel, Gesch. Bab. und Ass., p. 660; Winckler, op. cit., p. 225.
[976] The objective of this expedition was the punishment of Kiakku of Shinukhta, whose principality was given to Matti of Atuna or Tuna. On the possible identification of this place with the Tynna of Ptolemy (v. vi. 22), see above, [p. 61, note 4], and with Faustinopolis, see Ramsay, Hist. Geog., p. 68. Olmstead (Western Asia in the Days of Sargon, p. 83, note 9) places it at Tyana itself, which opens up interesting possibilities.
[977] On the identification with ‘Mita of Muski’ of the Assyrian texts, see above, [p. 53].
[978] On the organisation of the Assyrian provinces in these times, see Winckler, Gesch. Bab. und Ass., pp. 210 ff.; Tiele, Bab. Ass. Gesch., pp. 497-499. Cf. also Olmstead, op. cit., pp. 163 ff.
[979] On these events which concern Uassarmi, chief of Tabal in 740 B.C., and others, cf. Maspero, op. cit., p. 251.