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No. 2.–TRANSLATION OF THE SECOND
DYNASTIC TABLET FROM BABYLON
COLUMN I
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12. 11 kings [of the dynasty of BABYLON] for [294 years].
13. Anma[n] for [5]1 (years).
14. Ki-AN [Nigas] for 55 (years).
15. Damki-ili[su] for 461 (years).
16. Is-ki-[pal] for 15 (years).
17. Sussi, (his) brother, for 27 (years).
18. Gul-ki-[sar] for 55 (years).
19. Kirgal-[ dara-mas] for 50 (years).
20. A-dara-[kalama] for 28 (years).
21. A-kur-du-[ana] for 26 (years).
22. Melamma-[kurkura] for 6 (years).
23. Bel-ga[mil?] for 9 (years).
24. For 368 (years) the 11 kings of the dynasty of URUAZAGGA.
25. Gandis for 16 (years).
26. Agum-si]pak] his son for 22 (years).
27. Guya-si[pak] for 22 (years).2
28. Ussi his son for 8 (years).
29. Adu-medas for ... (years).
30. Tazzi-gurumas for . . . (years).
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31. [Agum-kak-rimi3 for . . . years].
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next are destroyed.
COLUMN II
14. . . . . . for 22 (years).
15. . . . . . for 26 (years).
16. . . . . . for 17 (years).
17. Kara . . . 4 for 2 (years).
18. Gis-amme . . . ti for 6 (years).
19. Saga-sal[tiyas] for 13 (years).
20. Kasbat his son for 8 (years).
21. Bel-nadin-sumi for 1 year (and) 6 months.
22. Kara-Urus5 for 1 year
(and) 6 months.
23. Rimmon-nadin-suma for 6 (years).
24. Rimmon-suma-natsir for 30 (years).
25. Meli-Sipak6 for 15 (years).
26. Merodach-abla-iddin (Merodach-baladan) his son for 13 (years).
27. Zamama-nadin-sumi7 for
1 (year).
28. Bel-suma . . .8 for 3
(years).
29. For 576 (years) 9 months the 36 kings [of the dynasty of
the KASSITES].9
30. Merodach- . . . . for 17 (years).
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31. . . . . . . . for 6 (years).
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COLUMN III
5. . . . . . . . for 22 (years).
6. Merodach-nadin- . . . 10
for I year and 6 months.
7. Merodach-kul[lat] . . .11
for 13 (years).
8. Nebo-nadin- ... for 9 (years).
9. For 72 (years and) 6 months the 11 kings of the dynasty of
ISIN.12
10. Simmas-si[pak] for 18 (years).
11. Bel-mukin-[ziri] for 5 months.
12. Kassû-nadin-akhi for 3 (years).
13. For 21 (years and) 5 months the three kings of the dynasty
of the land of the Sea.13
14. E-ulbar-sakin-sumi for 17 (years).
15. Vras-kudurri-[utsur] for 3 (years).
16. Silanim (?)-Suqamu[na] for 3 months.
17. For 20 (years and) 3 months the 3 kings of the dynasty of
BIT-[BAZI].
18. AN . . . [an ELAMITE] for 6 (years).
19. . . . . . . for 13 (years).
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20 for 6 months (and) 12 (days).
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COLUMN IV
2. Nebo-suma-yukin [the son of Dakuri] for . . . (years).
3. Nabu-[natsir]14 for [14] (years).
4. Nebo-nadin-ziri15 his son for
2 (years).
5. Nebo-suma-yukin his son for 1 month and 12 days.
6. The 31 [kings?]16 of the dynasty
of BABYLON.
7. Yukin-zira of the dynasty of SASÎ17
for 3 (years).
8. Pulu18 for 2 (years).
9. Ulula19 of the dynasty of TINU
for 5 (years).
10. Merodach-abla-iddina (Merodach-baladan) of the dynasty of the country
of the Sea for 12 (years).
11. Sargon for 5 (years).
12. Sin-akhe-erba (Sennacherib) of the dynasty of KHABI
the greater for 2 (years).
13. Merodach-zakir-sumi the son of Arad- . . . for 1 month.
14. Merodach-abla-iddina a soldier of KHABI 20
for 6 months.
15. Bel-ebus of the dynasty of Babylon for 3 (years).
16. Assur-nadin-sumi of the dynasty of KHABI the
greater for 6 (years).
17. Nergal-zusezib for 1 (year).
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18. Musezib-Merodach of the dynasty of BABYLON for 4 (years).
19. Sin-akhe-erba (Sennacherib) for 8 (years).
20. Assur-akhe-iddina (Esarhaddon) for [12 years].
21. Samas-suma-yukin (Saosdukhinos) for [20 years].
22. Kandal-[anu] (Khineladanos) for [22 years].
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FOOTNOTES
1 Mr. Pinches' copy gives 36 years.
2 Is this king merely a duplicate of his'
predecessor, the different spelling of the name having caused the annalist
to divide one king into two?
3 Supplied from an inscription of the king
himself, who styles himself the son of Tassi-gururnas, the descendant of
Abi . . . the son of Agum . . . and the offspring of the god Suqamuna.
4 Identified by Dr. Oppert with Kudur -
Bel, who, according to Nabonidos, was the father of Sagasalti-buryas, the
latter of whom reigned 800 years before himself (B.C. 1340). But the identification
is doubtful, since the names do not agree.
5 "The servant of Bel" (Kudur-Bel) in Kassite.
6 "The man of Merodach" in Kassite.
7 Zamama-nadin-sumi was a contemporary of
the Assyrian king Assur-dan-an (whose name should probably be read Assur-dan,
and be identified with that of Assur-dayan, the great-grandfather of Tiglath-Pileser
I.)
8 Or Bel-nadin- . . .
9 The Kassites were a rude tribe of the
Elamite mountains on the northeast side of Babylonia, Noldeke has shown
that they must be identified with the Kosszeans of classical geography.
10 Perhaps Merodach-nadin-akhi, the antagonist
of the Assyrian king Tiglath-Pileser I., 418 years before the conquest
of Babylon by Sennacherib, and consequently B.C. 1106.
11 Perhaps the Merodach-sapik-kullat of
the Synchronous Tablet, who was a contemporary of Assur-bil-kala, the son
of Tiglath-Pileser I.
12 Isin (PA-SE) was
also called Pate'si (" the city of the high-priest" in Babylonia), according
to W. A. I., ii. 53,
13 That is, the Persian Gulf. Merodach-baladan
is described below as also belonging to the dynasty of the conntry of the
Sea, and his ancestral kingdom was that of the Kalda or Chaldees in 'Bit-yagina
among the marshes at the mouth of the Euphrates.
14 The Nabonassar of Ptolemy's Canon, B.C.
747.
15 Called Nadinu in the Babylonian Chronicle.
16 Possibly we should supply "years" instead
of "kings."
17The annals of Tiglath-Pileser III show
that we should read Sapi or Sape. Yukinzira is the Khinziros of Ptolemy's
Canon.
18 Pulu is the Pul of the Old Testament,
the Pôres of Ptolemy's Canon. His name is replaced by that of Tiglath
- Pileser in the Babylonian Chronicle, and the two years of his reign correspond
with the two years during which Tiglath-Pileser reigned over Babylonia.
19 The Shalmaneser of the Babylonian: Chronicle
and the Assyrian monuments, the Ilulaios of Ptolemy's Canon.
20 Does this imply that he was a different
person from the famous Merodach-baladan, the contemporary of Sargon and
Hezekiah?