Identifier: historyofbabylon00kinguoft (find matches)
Title: A history of Babylon from the foundation of the monarchy to the Persian conquest
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: King, L. W. (Leonard William), 1869-1919
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Publisher: London : Chatto and Windus
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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inth Dynasty, until the rise ofthe Neo-Babylonian Empire, Babylonia was completelyovershadowed by the power of Assyria. She becamemerely a subject province of the empire, and her TenthDynasty is mainly composed of Assyrian rulers ortheir nominees. Nabu-mukin-zer had reigned onlythree years when Tiglath-pileser again invaded Baby-lonia, took him captive, and ascended the throne _ofBabylon, where he ruled under his name of Pulu.^On his death, which occurred two years later, he wassucceeded by Shalmaneser V., who, as suzerain ofBabylon, adopted the name of Ululai. But Babylonia ^ Though we only possess a few contract-tablets of this period, the factthat the Ptolemaic Canon begins with the reign of Nabonassar (see above, p.265, n. 1) is evidence that it marked a revival of literary activity, accompaniedby a study of the chronology and possibly by a revision of the calendar. 2 So Bab. Chron., I., 10 ; in the Kings List he is described as the sonof Nabu-nadin-zer. 2 See above, p. 267, n. 1.
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:i(,S o ^ 7. ^ — -S (A S c W S C « RELATIONS AVITH ASSYRIA 269 soon demonstrated her power of hindering Assyrianplans, for, after the close of Shalmanesers reign, whenSargons army had secured the capture of Samaria, hewas obliged to recall his forces from the West by themenace^of his southern province. JNIerodach-baladan, aChaldean chief of Bit-Iakin ^ at the head of the PersianGulf, now laid claim to the throne of Babylon. Byhimself he would not have been formidable to Assyria,but he was backed by an unexpected and dangerousally. Elam had not meddled in Babylonian affairs forcenturies, but she had gradually become alarmed at thegrowth of Assyrian power. So Khumbanigash, theElamite king, allying himself with INIerodach-baladan,invaded Babylonia, laid siege to the frontier fortress ofDer or Dur-ilu on the Lower Tigris, and defeated Sargonand the Assyrian army before its walls. JNIerodach-baladan was acknowledged by the Babylonians as theirking, and he contmued to be a thorn in the s

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