A history of Babylon from the foundation of the monarchy to the Persian conquest . were drawn up in the reignof INIanana, who was Sumu-abums vassal. In thesedocuments the oath is taken in Mananas name, butthey are dated by the formula for Sumu-abumsthirteenth year, commemorating his capture of importance of the latter event may be held toexplain the use of the suzerains own formula, for otherdocuments in JNlananas reign are dated by local events,pro\dng that at Kish, as at Sippar, a vassal city ofBabylon was allowed the privilege of retaining its ownsystem of time-reckoning. If we
A history of Babylon from the foundation of the monarchy to the Persian conquest . were drawn up in the reignof INIanana, who was Sumu-abums vassal. In thesedocuments the oath is taken in Mananas name, butthey are dated by the formula for Sumu-abumsthirteenth year, commemorating his capture of importance of the latter event may be held toexplain the use of the suzerains own formula, for otherdocuments in JNlananas reign are dated by local events,pro\dng that at Kish, as at Sippar, a vassal city ofBabylon was allowed the privilege of retaining its ownsystem of time-reckoning. If we are right in regarding ^ That Sumu-abum performed the dedicatiou in his character of suzerainis proved by a contract-tablet from Kish, which is dated by the formula forhis tenth year. - It is also possible that the eight years of conflict may date from Sumu-abums accession, in which case tlie text would commemorate a strengtheningof the wall of Kish two years before the capture of the city by Babylon ; butthe evidence of the date-formulae is in favour of the tenth year. f^H (^. HAMMURAMI RKCKlVIXt; HIS LAWS KROM THE Dele-, en Ferse, Me»,. IV, pi. 3 THE WESTERN SEMITES 145 Ashduni-erim as Sumu-abums contemporary, it is clearthat he must have been succeeded by Manana withinthree years of his capitulation to Babylon. During thenext few years the throne of Kish was occupied byat least three rulers in quick succession, Sumu-ditana,lawium, and Khalium,^ for we know that by thethirteenth year of Sumu-la-ilum, who succeeded Sumu-abum on the throne of Babylon, the city of Kish hadrevolted and had been finally annexed. The conquest of Kazallu, which Sumu-abum carriedout in the last year but one of his reign, was the mostimportant of Babylons early victories, for it marked anextension of her influence beyond the limits of city appears to have lain to the east of the Tigris,and the two most powerful empires in the past historyof Babylonia had each come into active
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