[56] See "Chronicles," I., p. 87 f.
[57] An approximate date of 1430-1400 b.c. is assigned to him by Budge, "History of Egypt," Vol. IV., pp. 113 ff.; while his accession is placed in 1383 b.c. by Pétrie, "History of Egypt," Vol. II., pp. 205 ff.; in 1380 b.c. by Meyer, "Ægyptische Chronologie," p. 68, and "Geschichte," I., ii., p. 335 f., and Hall, "Ancient History of the Near East," p. 228; and in 1375 b.c. by Breasted, "History of Egypt," p. 509, and "Ancient Records," Vol. I., p. 43. Maspero implies a date of about 1380 b.c.; cf. "Histoire ancienne," II., p. 337, note.
[58] According to Dr. Budge's scheme of chronology, an approximate date of 1400 b.c. for Burna-Buriash would yield for Hammurabi a date of c. 2100 b.c. (equivalent to his twenty-fourth year).
[59] See Hilprecht, "Old Babylonian Inscriptions," Pt. I., pi. 30 f., No. 83; cf. also Jensen, "Zeits. für Assyr.," VIII., pp. 220 ff.
[60] Cf. King, "Tukulti-Ninib I.," p. 118 f.
[61] See Rawlinson, "Cun. Inscr. West. Asia," Vol. III., pl. 38, No. 1, Obv. 1. 10.
[62] See below, p. 133.
[63] That Berossus depended on native lists of rulers in compiling his first dynasty of semi-mythical kings has been strikingly confirmed by documents discovered recently in the Niffer Collection of tablets preserved in the Pennsylvania Museum. These have been published by Poebel, "Univ. of Pennsyl. Mus. Publications," Vol. IV., No. I, and Vol. V., and the new information they furnish is of great interest for the earlier history. It may be noted that the figure 34,090 is that given for the duration of the dynasty in Syncellus (ed. Dindorf, p. 147); in the equivalent in sars, etc., which is added (i.e. 9 sars, 2 ners, and 8 soss = 34,080 years), it is probable that the units are intentionally ignored, though some would regard 34,080 as the correct figure (see below, [p. 115]). In Eusebius ("Chron. lib. I.," ed. Schoene, Col. 25) the figure is 33,091 (probably a mistake for 34,091); this figure at any rate confirms the reading of ninety (against eighty) in Syncellus, cf. Meyer, "Beiträge zur alten Geschichte (Klio)," III., p. 133; and see further, p. 116 f., n. 5.
[64] Eusebius, "Chron. lib. I.," ed. Schoene, Col. 25; see also Schwartz in Pauly-Wissowa, "Real-Encyclopädie," III. (i.). Col. 311.
[65] In margin of MSS. 34 years.