A History of Babylon, from the Foundation of the Monarchy to the Persian Conquest

by L. W. King

[66] In margin of MSS. 48 years.

[67] See further, p. 115 f.

[68] Those before the Deluge are said to have reigned for a hundred and twenty sars, i.e. 432,000 years.

[69] Eusebius, "Chron. lib. I.," ed. Schoene, Col. 53: "Hoc pacto Khaldæi suæ regionis reges ab Aloro usque ad Alexandrum recensent."

[70] See above, p. 114, n. 1.

[71] "Chron. lib. I.," ed. Schoene, Col. 25: "postquos, inquit (sc. Poly-histor), rex Chaldæorum extitit, cui nomen Phulus est."

[72] That is to say, at the point marked by the group Χίνξηρος καὶ Πῶros in the Ptolemaic Canon. Ukîn-zêr is an abbreviation of Nabû-mukîn-zêr.

[73] See above, p. 114, n. 4.

[74] Cf. Meyer, "Beiträge zur alten Geschichte (Klio)," III., pp. 131 ff.

[75] The statement occurs in the commentary of Simplicius upon Aristotle's "De Caelo," and the Greek text reads 31,000; cf. ed. Heiberg, p. 506. But in a Latin translation by Moerbeka the figure is given as 1903, and this probably represents the original reading; cf. Lehmann-Haupt, "Zwei Hauptprobleme," pp. 109 f., 210, and Meyer, op. cit., p. 131.