[Footnote 21: Meluhhi is not Méroe, but Libya, and especially the
Marmarica. The name seems to be the "Milyes" of Herodotus.]
[Footnote 22: "Asdudim" seems to be a Hebraic plural.]
[Footnote 23: Meluhhi. This is the only passage where small gaps occur.]
[Footnote 24: This is one of the most important passages of the text; the period is the Chaldean eclipse period of 1,805 years, and ended in 712 B.C. Instead of this passage, the stele of Larnaca, now in Berlin, has, "from the remotest times, the beginning of Assyria, until now." The commencement of the period, 2517 B.C., coincided very nearly with the capture of Babylon by the Medes. This date commences the real history; previous to this time reigned the 86 princes during twelve lunar periods of 1,805, and twelve solar periods of 1,460 years, viz., 39,180 years. The very event may have happened eleven years afterward, 2506 B.C. The Deluge happened, according to the Chaldeans, in 41697 B.C.]
[Footnote 25: This royal name is still found in the Armenian texts of
Van.]
[Footnote 26: The inscriptions of this prince are translated in the seventh volume.]
[Footnote 27: Elam. We are now certain of this identification.]
[Footnote 28: The same who occurs in the Ptolemaic canon (721-709).]
[Footnote 29: From 721 to 709 B.C.]
[Footnote 30: 32 m. 91 cm., 39 yds.]