[644] L’Étrurie et les Etrusques, vol. i. p. 93. Atlas, p. 2, Pl. II.
[645] Genthe, Program, &c. p. 15.
[646] The bronze is in the British Museum; the iron in the possession of Mr. H. S. Cuming (Meyrick).
[647] XXVIII. cap. 45.
[648] Vol. iv, Pl. XXX.; it is copied by Meyrick.
[649] The writer of this sentence is, curious to say, the learned Dr. Birch (p. 5, vol. i., Soc. Bib. Archæology, 1872). Even Justin (lib. i.) knew better; he makes Sesostris (ii. 3) 1,500 years older than Ninus, ‘the most ancient king of Assyria,’ whom he places in b.c. 2196–2144 (Wetzel).
[650] In the LXX Orech; the Cuneiform Uru-ki (City of the Land); in Talmud, Urikut, City of the Dead for Babylon (hod. Warka); and in Greek Orchóe, whence perhaps ‘Orcus.’ Urukh became among the Classics of Europe ‘pater Orchamus.’
[651] Assyrian Discoveries (London: Sampson Low & Co., 1876), p. 447. He gives, as a scheme of Abydenus and Berosus, the Chaldæan:—
| Years. | |
|---|---|
| Alorus and 9 kings before the Babylonian Flood | 432,000 |
| 86 kings after B. Flood to Median conquest (1st dynasty) | 34,080 (33,091) |
| 8 Median kings (2nd dynasty) | 224 (160?) |
| 11 other (3rd dynasty) | unknown |
| 49 Chaldæan (4th dynasty) | 458 |
| 9 Arabian (5th dynasty) | 245 |
| Semiramis 45 kings (7th dynasty) | 526 |
[652] The word is Har-Minni, or Mountains of the Minni. The oldest Armenian inscriptions date from the eighth century b.c.