is certain that on
one side they joined the Aramaeans, and that they were in
the neighbourhood of Tushkhan. Kharran is the Harran of the
Balikh, mentioned in vol. iv. pp. 37, 38 of the present
work.

** The name of Muzri frequently occurs, and in various
positions, among the countries mentioned by the Assyrian
conquerors; the frequency of its occurrence is easily
explained if we are to regard it as a purely Assyrian term
used to designate the military confines or marches of the
kingdom at different epochs of its history. The Muzri here
in question is the borderland situated in the vicinity of
Cilicia, probably the Sophene and the Gumathene of classical
geographers. Winckler appears to me to exaggerate their
importance when he says they were spread over the whole of
Northern Syria as early as the time of Shalmaneser I.

*** Khanigalbat is the name of the province in which Milid
was placed.

He was recalled by a revolt which had broken out in the scattered cities
of the district of Dur-Kurigalzu; he crushed the rising in spite of the
help which Kadash-manburiash, King of Babylon, had given to the rebels,
and was soon successful in subduing the princes of Lulume. These were
not the raids of a day's duration, undertaken, without any regard to the
future, merely from love of rapine or adventure. Shalmaneser desired to
bring the regions which he annexed permanently under the authority of
Assyria, and to this end he established military colonies in suitable
places, most of which were kept up long after his death.*

* More than five centuries after the time of Shalmaneser I.,
Assurnazir-pal makes mention, in his _Annals_, of one of
these colonies, established in the country of Diarbekir at
Khabzilukha (or Khabzidipkha), near to the town of Damdamua.

He seems to have directed the internal affairs of his kingdom with the
same firmness and energy which he displayed in his military expeditions.
It was no light matter for the sovereign to decide on a change in
the seat of government; he ran the risk of offending, not merely his
subjects, but the god who presided over the destinies of the State, and
neither his throne nor his life would have been safe had he failed in
his attempt. Shalmaneser, however, did not hesitate to make the change,
once he was fully convinced of the drawbacks presented by Assur as
a capital. True,