he beautified the city, restored its temples, and
permitted it to retain all its privileges and titles; but having
done so, he migrated with his court to the town of Kalakh, where
his descendants continued to reside for several centuries. His son
Tukulti-ninip made himself master of Babylon, and was the first of his
race who was able to claim the title of King of Sumir and Akkad.
The Cossaeans were still suffering from their defeat at the hands of
Bamman-nirari. Four of their princes had followed Nazimaruttash on the
throne in rapid succession--Kadashmanturgu, Kadashmanburiash, who
was attacked by Shalmaneser, a certain Isammeti whose name has been
mutilated, and lastly, Shagaraktiburiash: Bibeiasdu, son of this latter,
was in power at the moment when Tukulti-ninip ascended the throne. War
broke out between the two monarchs, but dragged on without any marked
advantage on one side or the other, till at length the conflict was
temporarily suspended by a treaty similar to others which had been
signed in the course of the previous two or three centuries.*

* The passage from the _Synchronous History_, republished by
Winckler, contains the termination of the mutilated name of
a Babylonian king... _ashu_, which, originally left
undecided by Winckler, has been restored "Bibeiashu" by
Hilprecht, in the light of monuments discovered at Nipur, an
emendation which has since then been accepted by Winckler.
Winckler, on his part, has restored the passage on the
assumption that the name of the King of Assyria engaged
against Bibeiashu was Tukulti-ninip; then, combining this
fragment with that in the _Pinches Chronicle_, which deals
with the taking of Babylon, he argues that Bibeiashu was the
king dethroned by Tukulti-ninip. An examination of the
dates, in so far as they are at present known to us from the
various documents, seems to me to render this arrangement
inadmissible. The _Pinches Chronicle_ practically tells us
that Tukulti-ninip reigned over Babylon for _seven years_,
when the Chaldaeans revolted, and named Rammanshumusur king.
Now, the Babylonian Canon gives us the following reigns for
this epoch: Bibeiashu _8 years_, Belnadinshumu _1 year 6
months_, Kadashmankharbe _1 year 6 months_, Rammannadinshumu
_6 years_, Rammanshumusur _30 years,_ or _9 years_ between
the end of the reign of Bibeiashu and the beginning of