e possess,
unfortunately, no annals of the later years of this monarch; we have
reason to believe that he undertook several fresh expeditions into
Nairi,*** and a mutilated tablet records some details of troubles with
Elam in the Xth year of his reign.

* The town of Araziki has been identified with the Eragiza
(Eraziga) of Ptolemy; the Eraziga of Ptolemy was on the
right bank of the Euphrates, while the text of Tiglath-
pileser appears to place Araziki on the left bank.

** The account of the hunts in the _Annals_ is supplemented
by the information furnished in the first column of the
"Broken Obelisk." The monument is of the time of Assur-nazir-
pal, but the first column contains an abstract from an
account of an anonymous hunt, which a comparison of numbers
and names leads us to attribute to Tiglath-pileser I.; some
Assyri-ologists, however, attribute it to Assur-nazir-pal.

* The inscription of Sebbeneh-Su was erected at the time of
the third expedition into Nairi, and the _Annals_ give only
one; the other two expeditions must, therefore, be
subsequent to the Vth year of his reign.

We gather that he attacked a whole series of strongholds, some of
whose names have a Cossaean ring about them, such as Madkiu, Sudrun,
Ubrukhundu, Sakama, Shuria, Khirishtu, and Andaria. His advance in this
direction must have considerably provoked the Chaldaeans, and, indeed,
it was not long before actual hostilities broke out between the two
nations. The first engagement took place in the valley of the Lower Zab,
in the province of Arzukhina, without any decisive result, but in the
following year fortune favoured the Assyrians, for Dur-kurigalzu, both
Sipparas, Babylon, and Upi opened their gates to them, while Akar-sallu,
the Akhlame, and the whole of Sukhi as far as Eapiki tendered their
submission to Tiglath-achuch-sawh-akhl-pileser.

[Illustration: 239.jpg MERODACH-NADIN-AKHI]

Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from the heliogravure in Pr.
Lenormant. The original is in the British Museum. It is one
of the boundary stones which were set up in a corner of a
field to mark its legal limit.

Merodach-nadin-akhi, who was at this time reigning in Chaldaea, was
like his ancestor Nebuchadrezzar I., a brave and warlike sovereign: he
appears at first to have given way under the blow thus dealt him, and to
have acknowledged the suzerainty of his rival,