t be
the peoples situated between the Caspian and the steppes of
the Iranian plateau, and a branch of the Scythians who are
soon to appear in Asiatic history.

While he was thus preparing the way for peace in his Median domains, one
of his generals crossed the Euphrates to chastise the Tabal for their
ill deeds. The latter had figured, about the year 740 B.C., among the
peoples who had bowed before the supremacy of Urartu, and their chief,
Uassarmi, had been the ally or vassal of Sharduris. Contemptuously
spared at the taking of Arpad, he had not been able to resign himself
to the Assyrian yoke, and had, in an ill-timed moment, thrown it off
in 731; he had, however, been overcome and forced to surrender, and
Tiglath-pileser had put in his place a man of obscure birth, named
Khulli, whose fidelity had remained unshaken throughout the reign of
Shalmaneser V. and the first years of Sargon. Khulli's son, Ambaridis,
the husband of a Ninevite princess, who had brought him as dowry a
considerable part of Cilicia, had been unable to resist the flattering
offers of Kusas; he had broken the ties which attached him to the new
Assyrian dynasty, but had been left unmolested so long as Urartu and
Muzazir remained unshaken, since his position at the western extremity
of the empire prevented him from influencing in the smallest degree the
issue of the struggle, and it was well known that when the fall of Kusas
took place Ambaridis would be speedily brought to account. He was, in
fact, seized, banished to the banks of the Tigris, and his hereditary
fief of Bit-Burutash annexed to Cilicia, under the rule of an Assyrian.
The following year was signalised by a similar execution at which Sargon
himself deigned to preside in person. Tarkhunazi, the King of Miliddu,
not only had taken advantage of the troubles consequent on the Armenian
war to rebel against his master, but had attacked Gunzinanu, who held,
and had ruthlessly pillaged, the neighbouring district of Kammanu.*
Sargon overcame him in the open field, took from him his city of
Miliddu, and stormed the town of Tulgarimme in which he had taken
refuge.**

* Kammanu is probably not the Kammanenc of the Greek
geographers, which is too far north relatively to Melitene,
but is probably Comana of Cappadocia and its district.

** Tulgarimme has been connected with the Togarmah of the
Bible (Gen. x. 3) by Halevy and Delitzsch, and their views
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