[332] G. Smith, "Assurbanipal," p. 200, 234-236, 249-251. As in two passages 1,635 years are given with quotation of the Neres and Sosses, this number must be kept in the third passage instead of 1,535 years. The conquest of Susa did not follow immediately on the conquest of Babylon, in the year 647; see below.
[333] Sayce, "Bibl. Arch." 3, 479; Oppert, "Empires de Chaldée et d'Assyrie," p. 27.
[334] G. Smith, "Discov." p. 234; "Early Hist." p. 58.
[335] Genesis, xiv. 1-12; G. Smith, "Assurb." p. 228.
[336] Also in Ménant, "Les Achémenides," p. 136.
[337] G. Smith, "Assurbanipal," p. 224, ff.
[338] Sayce, "Transact. Bibl. Arch." 3, 465, 485.
[339] So Rawlinson, Norris, Mordtmann, "Zeitschrift d. d. M. G." 1870, s. 7, 76, and Sayce, loc. cit.
[340] Norris, "Dict." I. 50.
[341] Such is also the opinion of Eberhard Schrader.