, until now." The
commencement of the period, 2517 B.C., coincided very nearly with the
capture of Babylon by the Medes. This date commences the real history;
previous to this time reigned the 86 princes during twelve lunar periods
of 1,805, and twelve solar periods of 1,460 years, viz., 39,180 years. The
very event may have happened eleven years afterward, 2506 B.C. The Deluge
happened, according to the Chaldeans, in 41697 B.C.]

[Footnote 25: This royal name is still found in the Armenian texts of
Van.]

[Footnote 26: The inscriptions of this prince are translated in the
seventh volume.]

[Footnote 27: Elam. We are now certain of this identification.]

[Footnote 28: The same who occurs in the Ptolemaic canon (721-709).]

[Footnote 29: From 721 to 709 B.C.]

[Footnote 30: 32 m. 91 cm., 39 yds.]

[Footnote 31: 54 m. 85 cm., 65 yds.]

[Footnote 32: 4 m. 94 cm., 17-1/2 ft.]

[Footnote 33: Unexplained.]

[Footnote 34: "Timin," not "cylinder."]

[Footnote 35: Only two years after the commencement of the war.]

[Footnote 36: 12,544. pd. troy 68.]

[Footnote 37: 152,227. pd. troy, 75. A royal silver drachm is nearly 3s.,
a royal mina L9; the state drachm and mina is the half of it. A silver
talent is always very close to L270 sterling.]

[Footnote 38: Sargon speaks of his third "year" and not of his third
campaign, in order to mark what he had already accomplished before the
year 717.]

[Footnote 39: One hundred and ten English miles.]

[Footnote 40: This is the second passage where Sargon alludes to this
period ending under his reign.]

[Footnote 41: "Karduniyas."]

[Footnote 42: Or "Dur-Sarkayan." The King passes rapidly over some other
peculiarities which he inserts in other texts, namely, the measures of the
town, and the ceremonies of its edification. The circuit is given as
containing 3-1/3 ners (miles) 1 stadium 3 canes 2 spans, or 24,740 spans,
and Botta's measurings afford 6,790 metres (7,427 yds.). This statement
gives for the span, with a slight correction in the fourth decimal, 27,425
cm. (10.797 ins., and for the cubit 5,485 cm. 21.594 ins.).]

[Transcriber's Note: Above, the author seems to be using the European
decimal point ",", in the metric measurements, and the American decimal
point in the Imperial measurements, ".".]

[Footnote 43: At this time the palace of Nineveh was still in ruins. It
was rebuilt by Sennacherib.]

[Footnote 44: This is my former transcription of the divine n