[555] Ménant, "Ann." pp. 71, 72, 73.
[556] Ménant, loc. cit. p. 82.
[557] Ménant, loc. cit. pp. 90, 91.
[558] Ménant, loc. cit. p. 84.
[559] Ménant, p. 86.
[560] E. Schrader. "K. A. T." s. 66, 67.
[561] Schrader, loc. cit. s. 20, 21.
[562] "Records of the Past," 3, 79.
[563] Ménant, loc. cit. p. 89.
[564] Ménant, p. 93.
[565] G. Rawlinson, "Monarch." 22, 94.
[566] G. Rawlinson, "Monarch." 12, 340.
[567] Ménant, loc. cit. p. 67.
[568] G. Rawlinson, "Monarch." 12, 319; 22, 97.
[569] G. Smith, "Discov." pp. 91, 141, 252.
[570] Sayce, "Records of the Past," pp. 94, 95.
[571] According to the inscription of Kurkh in the year 856; according to the obelisk 854 B.C.
[572] Ménant, "Ann." p. 107.
[573] Bin-hidri is read by E. Schrader and others. Rimmon-hidri by Sayce. As the god Bin was also called Rimmon, the ideogram of the name may be read one way or the other. The Books of the Kings call the contemporary of Ahab, Benhadad. For farther information, see p. 247, note.
[574] Sayce, "Records," 3, 100.
[575] E. Schrader, "Keilinschriften und A. T." s. 94 ff., 101, 102; Ménant, loc. cit. pp. 99, 113.
[576] Ménant, "Ann." p. 115.
[577] Vol. i. 257. Ménant, "Babyl." p. 135.
[578] Inscriptions on the bulls in Ménant, "Ann." p. 114.
[579] E. Schrader, loc. cit. s. 103; above, p. 251.
[580] Communication from E. Schrader; cf. Deuteron. iii. 9.
[581] E. Schrader, "K. A. T." s. 106, 107.
[582] Cf. above, p. 257.
[583] Inscription of the obelisk and the bulls in Ménant, "Ann." 99, 114.
[584] Ménant, loc. cit. p. 101.
[585] Ménant, p. 101.
[586] Ménant, p. 104.
[587] Sayce reads Guzan.
[588] According to a communication from E. Schrader, Marduk-habal-assur ought to be read, not Marduk-habal-iddin.
[589] Oppert, "Memoires de l'Acad. d. inscript." 1869, 1, 513; Sayce, "Records of the Past," 5, 42.
[590] Sayce, "Records of the Past," 3, 88, 89, 90, 91, 99.
[591] "Anab." 3, 4, 7-9.
[592] Ménant, loc. cit. p. 96.
[593] The reading is uncertain.
[594] Oppert, "Empires," pp. 127, 128; G. Rawlinson, "Monarch." 22, p. 115, n. 8; Ménant, loc. cit. p. 124.
[595] E. Schrader, loc. cit. s. 111, 112.
[596] Ménant, loc. cit. p. 127; cf. G. Rawlinson, 22, 117.
[597] Oppert et Ménant, "Documents juridiques," pp. 146-148.
[598] G. Smith, "Discov." p. 389; Oppert et Ménant, loc. cit. p. 342.
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