compared with the
names contained in the Annals of Sargon and his successors,
and assimilated to those of the princes who were
contemporary with Sennacherib and Assur-bani-pal; then they
were referred to the time of the great Elamite empire, and
one of them was identified with that Kudur-Nakhunta who had
pillaged Uruk 1635 years before Assur-bani-pal. Finally,
they were brought down again to an intermediate period, more
precisely, to the fourteenth or thirteenth century B.C. This
last date appears to be justified, at least as the highest
permissible, by the mention of Durkurigalzu, in a text of
Undasgal.

** Jensen was the first to recognise that Liyan was a place-
name, and the inscriptions of Shilkhak-Inshusinak add that
Liyan was the capital of the kingdom; perhaps it was the
name of a part of Susa. Khumban-numena has left us no
monuments of his own, but he is mentioned on those of his
son.

His son Undasgal carried on the works begun by his father, but that is
all the information the inscriptions afford concerning him, and the mist
of oblivion which for a moment lifted and allowed us to discern dimly
the outlines of this sovereign, closes in again and hides everything
from our view for the succeeding forty or fifty years.

[Illustration: 346.jpg BRICK BEARING THE NAME OF THE SUSIAN KING
SHILKHAK-INSHUSHINAK]

Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a photograph by Marcel
Dieulafoy.

About the thirteenth century a gleam once more pierces the
darkness, and a race of warlike and pious kings emerges into
view--Khalludush-In-shushinak, his son Shutruk-nakhunta, the latter's
two sons, Kutur-nakhunta and Shilkhak-Inshu-shinak,* and then perhaps a
certain Kutir-khuban.

* The order of succession of these princes is proved by the
genealogies with which their bricks are covered. Jensen has
shown that we ought to read Khalludush-Inshushinak and
Shilkhak-Inshushinak, instead of the shorter forms
Khalludush and Shilkhak read previously.

The inscriptions on their bricks boast of their power, their piety, and
their inexhaustible wealth. One after another they repaired and enlarged
the temple built by Khumban-numena at Liyan, erected sanctuaries and
palaces at Susa, fortified their royal citadel, and ruled over Habardip
and the Cossaeans as well as over Anshan and Elam. They vigorously
contested the possession