R E C O R D S O F T H E P AS T : B E I NG ENGL I S H T RAN S LAT I O NS O F T H E A Y A AND E Y A E SS RI N G PTI N MONUM NTS . P UB L I S H ED UN DE R T H E SA NCT I ON O F I I AL AR H Y THE S OCIETY O F B BL C C fEOLOG . I I I . VOL . ASSYRIAN TEXTS . LO N DO N D S S A M U E L B AG S T E R AN S O N , W 1 R O R R O . 5, PATE N STE C O N T E N T S . PR EFACE Early History Of Babylonia By G EO R G E S M I TH . Table of Ancient Acca dian Laws B Re v. H . S AYCE M . y the A , A Synchronous History of Assyria and Babylonia R . B e . H A Y CE M v. S . y the A , A Annals of Assur-nasir-pal M. B Rev. M . R O DW EI L y the , A Monolith Inscription of Shalmaneser B R A. H . AYCE M . e v. S y the , A a Inscription of Esarh ddon . R . B H . ALB T . S y F T O , F Second Inscription of Esarhaddon B . S . B H . AL T F. R y F T O , An Accadian Liturgy A e A. H . S AYCE M . By the R v . , Assyrian Sacred Poetry R. S H . ALB T . B . y F T O , F Assyrian Talismans and Exorcisms . S . B H . ALB T F R . y F T O , Ancient Babylonian Charms A. R A. H . S AYCE M . By the e v. , f F O . Lists urther Texts, etc Arra ng ed by GEOR G E SM I TH . P R E F A C E . T H E third volu m e O f th e R ecord s of th e Past contain s a continu ation of T ran slation s of Assyrian x m T e ts , and so e of th e p rincipal hi storical and oth er T docu m ents foun d i n th e Cu n eiform i n scription s . heir m i portance to hi storical , biblical , and philolog ical m studies , has b een already p oin ted ou t , an d th e onu m w ents hich app ear i n th e p resen t , are not of les s s fi m The m interes t than tho e in the rs t volu e . g reat as s x m of literature alread y e hu ed , th e attention directed m w k to i t b y ore scholars , the in teres t a a ened i n th e d stu d y, and th e learning i splayed in th e elucidation A C f m m of ss yrian an d Bab ylonian u nei or , p ro ise th e s t valuable contribu tion s to th e knowledg e of m k . m se oldest of race s of an i nd Th ere s till re ains , m x d even th e p resent aterial s b e e hau sted , a O f literary t reasu re i n th e m ound s of M es o otamia w m b , hich s oon er or later u st b e roug h t to v m m w light , and help t o sol e so e of th e p roble s hich the m onu m ent s hith erto found have p resented to ff The di erent i nquirers . data are b y d eg rees arrang ing m v the selves in their respectiv e places, and their alu e m i s ore ju stly appreciated . I ndi spen sable to a due PR EFACE . r O f W A kn owledg e of the hi sto y estern sia, they are hardly less so for th e un ex pected inform ation th ey afford to th e proper co m preh ension O f th e events i n Palestine w hich p receded the fall of the Jewi sh king m E C do s, th e conqu est o f g yp t and yp ru s, an d th e unexpected and i m po rtan t p art which th e Assyrian s Th p layed in th e history o f th e world . e m at erials v m of this olu e , lik e th e p receding , have been p repared b ff A y di erent ssyriolog ists with g reat care, and those which have app eared elsewh ere have been carefully revis ed and corrected o r retran slated for th e p resen t T w volu m e . h ey ill b e found to b e o f i nterest to r m th e student s of ch ronology, histo y, and co parative mytholog y . I R S . B C H . D ecember 1 8 . , 7 4 I F NIA EAR LY H STOR Y O BABY LO . B Y G E O R G E S M I T H . T H I S accoun t of the Early History o f Bab ylonia is taken fro m th e lecture delivered before the Society o f 8 1 Tr am Biblical Arch aeolog y on th e 6th of Ju ne 1 7 . ' ‘ I . aa zom of t/26 S ociety Vol . i . p . Since that date th ere have been several new discoveries bu t these have no t yet b een published in th e S ociety ’s v As olu m es an d therefore are not included h ere . the bulk of thi s paper consists O f translations fro m early Babylonian docu m ents i t is as well to notice that there i s considerable difficulty in reading s om e of th e m m was w I v prop er na es , an d since y pap er ritten ha e 2 R RD F TH E ECO S O PAST. proposed to read th e nam e of the m oon - g od i n s o m e “ “ A u w w cases g instead of Sin, hich ill alter thos e m m proper na es i n which thi s na e occurs . — F r I N OTE o th e convenience of read ers , have m 5 g enerally placed (g ) before th e na es of d eities , ( ) m an before th e na es of cities , d to inclu de restorations . ' EA Y S O Y OF A Y O A RL HI T R B B L NI . WHEN the light Of monumental history first dawns upon find r a a Babylonia we that count y inh bited by two r ces, the S and A a f a a umir kk d they spoke two dif erent l ngu ges, one a S a m a Turani n the other emitic, but we h ve no infor tion as a a a and to which r ce spoke either l ngu ge, we do not know a a their geogr phic l distribution in the country, but probably x a as a they were mi ed in most p rts, m ny of the cities have a both Turanian and Semitic names . The n me of the Sumir r a Ke- en- i a a and Su - - was w itten K me or g in Tur ni n, mi ri in and A a a an Semitic, the kkad were called Urdu in Tur ni n, d - — Ak ka S . ra a a di in emitic The Tu ni n people, who appe r to i a a Of r have been the or ginal inh bit nts the count y, invented the cuneiform mode of writing all the earliest inscriptions ar a a a a e in th t l ngu ge, but the proper n mes of most of the a are S kings and princip l persons written in emitic, in direct contrast to the body of the inscriptions . The Semites a a a a a ha appe r to h ve conquered the Tur ni ns, lthough they d not yet imposed their language on the country . Babylonia a a a at this time cont ined m ny gre t cities, some of the n Ni ur - -ki a a an principal bei g p , written Mul kit in Tur ni n, d Nipur in Semitic this city was probably the earliest seat of r a a empi e, and long continued the centre of the B byloni n E —ki a a an religion . ridu or Ridu, written Nun in Tur ni n, d E S Urlab- ki in ridu and Ridu in emitic ; Ur, written a and S a a isinna Tur nian, Ur in emitic ; K rr k, written N in a a and a a S E Tur ni n, K rr k in emitic ; Uruk ( rech) written —ki a and A a S Lab in Tur nian, and Uruk rk in emitic ; Larsa, t d—lab-ki ra a a S Si writ en U in Tu ni n, and Lars in emitic ; p a — - -ki a S par , written Ud kip nun in Tur nian, and ippar and R OR D F TH E 4 EC S O PAST.