esolutely faced the enemy at all three points of attack. As in
the previous year, he reserved for himself the position where danger
was most threatening, directing the operations against the Mannai. He
captured one by one the twenty-two strongholds of Ullusunu which Rusas
had seized, and laying hands on Dayaukku, sent him and his family into
exile to Hamath. This display of energy determined Ianzu of Nairi to
receive the Assyrian monarch courteously within the royal residence of
Khubushkia and to supply him with horses, cattle, sheep, and goats in
token of homage. Proceeding from thence in an oblique direction, Sargon
reached Andia and took prisoner its king Tilusinas. Having by this
exploit reduced the province of Mannai to order, he restored the
twenty-two towns to Ullusunu, and halting some days in Izirtu, erected
there a statue of himself, according to his custom, as a visible witness
of Assyrian supremacy, having done which, he retraced his steps to
the south-east. The province of Kharkhar, which had been reduced to
subjection only a few months previously, was already in open revolt, and
the district of Kar-Sharrukin alone remained faithful to its governor:
Sargon had to reconquer it completely, town by town, imposing on the
four citadels of Kishislu, Kindau, Bit-Bagaia, and Zaria the new names
of Kar-Nabu, Kar-Sin, Kar-Rammanu, and Kar-Ishtar, besides increasing
the fortifications of Kar-Sharrukin. The Medes once more acknowledged
his suzerainty, and twenty-two of their chiefs came to tender the
oath of allegiance at his feet; two or three districts which remained
insubordinate were given up to pillage as far as Bit-Khamban, and the
inhabitants of Kimirra were sent into captivity. The eastern campaign
was thus brought to a most successful issue, fortune, meanwhile, having
also favoured the Assyrian arms in the other menaced quarters. Mita,
after pushing forward at one point as far as the Mediterranean, had been
driven back into the mountains by the prefect of Kui, and the Bedawin of
the south had sustained a serious reverse.

These latter were mere barbarians, ignorant of the arts of reading and
writing, and hitherto unconquered by any foreign power: their survivors
were removed to Samaria, where captives from Hamath had already been
established, and where they were soon joined by further exiles from
Babylon.

[Illustration: 372.jpg THE TOWN OF BIT-BAGAIA BURNT BY THE ASSYRIANS]

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