[30] Vol. i. 512.
[31] Ménant, "Annal." p. 18.
[32] G. Smith, "Discov." p. 249.
[33] The date of Tiglath Adar is fixed by the statement of Sennacherib that he lost his seal to the Babylonians 600 years before Sennacherib took Babylon, i. e. about the year 1300 B.C. As the series of seven kings who reigned before Tiglath Adar is fixed, Assur-bil-nisi, the first of these, can be placed about 1460 B.C. if we allow 20 years to each.
[34] Vol. i. p. 262.
[35] This series, Pudiel, Bel-nirar and Bin-nirar, is established by tiles of Kileh-Shergat, and the fact that it joins on to Assur-u-ballit, by the tablet of Bin-nirar discovered by G. Smith, in which he calls himself great grandson of Assur-u-ballit, grandson of Bel-nirar, and son of Pudiel; G. Smith, "Discov." p. 244.
[36] G. Smith, "Discov." pp. 244, 245.
[37] E. Schrader, "Keilinschriften und A. T." s. 20; "Records of the Past," 7, 17.
[38] Ménant, "Annal." p. 73.
[39] G. Smith, loc. cit. p. 249.