A history of Babylon from the foundation of the monarchy to the Persian conquest . igns of Nebuchadnezzar I., Enlil-nadin-apli,and INIarduk-nadin-akhe has long been recognized fromthe occurrence of the same officials on legal documentsof the period.^ We must therefore place the newlyrecovered ruler in the gap before Nebuchadnezzar I.;he must be one of the first three kings of the dynasty,possibly its founder, whose name in the Kings Listbegins with the divine title JMarduk, and who ruledfor seventeen years according to the same of these missing rulers may perhaps be 1 See Bou
A history of Babylon from the foundation of the monarchy to the Persian conquest . igns of Nebuchadnezzar I., Enlil-nadin-apli,and INIarduk-nadin-akhe has long been recognized fromthe occurrence of the same officials on legal documentsof the period.^ We must therefore place the newlyrecovered ruler in the gap before Nebuchadnezzar I.;he must be one of the first three kings of the dynasty,possibly its founder, whose name in the Kings Listbegins with the divine title JMarduk, and who ruledfor seventeen years according to the same of these missing rulers may perhaps be 1 See Boundary-Stones in the Brit. Mus., pp. 96 if. - The Fourth Dynasty was known as that of Isin, and the fact that itsfounder should liave come from there is to be explained by the magnitudeof the disaster to Northern Babylonia. ITie city had been known asNisin in the earlier period (see above^ p. 91, n. 1), but even then therewas a tendency to drop the initial n. 3 I owe this information to Prof. Clay, who is preparing the text forpublication. * See below, p. 256. ^ Op. cit., p. :iSH DIVINK EMBLEMS ON A CHARTER OF NEBUCHAnNEZZAR ;V/A Mus., AV. Q0858. EELATIONS WITH ASSYRIA 255 restored as Ea-nadin-[. . .], if the royal name in thebroken inscription of Nebuchadnezzar I., to whichreference has already been made/ is to be read inthat way and not identified as that of the last memberof the Kassite Dynasty. During the earlier years ofthe Dynasty of I sin Babylonia must have been subjectto further Elamite aggression, and portions of thecountry may for a time have acknowledged the suze-rainty of her rulers. Nebuchadnezzars successes against Elam and theneighbouring district of Lulubu no doubt enabled him tooffer a more vigorous defence of his northern frontier;and, when Ashur-resh-ishi attempted an invasion ofBabylonian territory, he not only drove the Assyriansback, but followed them up and laid siege to the frontierfortress of Zanki. But Ashur-resh-ishi forced him toraise the
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