[21] 7 Jer. xxxix., 3, 13.
[22] Cf. Scheil, "Rev. d'Assyr.," XI., No. iv. (1914), pp. 105 ff.
[24] Cf. Dhorme, "Revue Biblique," 1903, pp. 131 ff.
[25] Cf. Dhorme, "Rev. d'Assyr.," XI., No. iii. (1914), pp. 105 ff. A duplicate account of the dedication will appear in Prof. Clay's forthcoming "Miscellaneous Inscriptions in the Vale Babylonian Collection," No. 45.
[26] See his cylinder in the British Museum, 82-7-4, 1025 recording his restoration of the temples in Harran and Sippar, Col. I., 11. 38 ff.; cf. Langdon, "Neuhab. Königsinschriften," p. 220 f.
[27] Though Cyrus was at first merely king of Anshan in Elam, with Susa as his capital, he was undoubtedly of Aryan descent. The rise of the southern or Persian group of the Iranians coincided with the westward expansion of the Median empire, and the fusion of the two branches may well have been fostered by disaffection in the north, due to the favour shown by the Median kings to their Scythian subjects. This would in great measure account for the ease with which Cyrus possessed himself of the Median empire; cf. Hogarth, "The Ancient East," pp. 150 ff.
[29] See the "Nabonidus-Cyrus Chronicle," Rev., Col. 111., 11. 12 ff.; and cp. Hagen, "Beitr. zur Assyr.," II., p. 222 f.
[30] Cf. "Nab.-Cyr. Chron.," Col. III., 11. 16 ff.