on them every year, and, after dealing a blow, retreated to
his hiding-place in the mountains. He was attacked in his stronghold,
and carried away captive with all his people into Egypt, at the furthest
extremity of the empire, to serve in Assyrian garrisons in the midst of
the fellahin.**

* In the numerous documents relating to the reign of Assur-
bani-pal the facts are arranged in geographical order, not
by the dates of the successive expeditions, and the
chronological order of the campaigns is all the more
difficult to determine accurately, as _Pinches' Babylonian
Chronicle_ fails us after the beginning of this reign,
immediately after the mention of the above-mentioned war
with Kirbit. Even the _Eponym Canon_ is only accurate down
to 666 B.C.; in that year there is a break, and although we
possess for the succeeding period more than forty names of
eponyms, their classification is not at present absolutely
certain.

** The expedition against Kirbit is omitted in certain
documents; it is inserted in the others in the fourth place,
between the wars in Asia Minor and the campaign against the
Mannai. The place assigned to it in the Bab. Chron. quite in
the beginning of the reign, is confirmed by a fragment of a
tablet quoted by Winckler. Perhaps it was carried out by a
Babylonian army: although Assur-bani-pal claimed the glory
of it, by reason of his suzerainty over Karduniash.

Meanwhile, the army which Esarhaddon had been leading against Taharqa
pursued its course under command of the Tartan.* Syria received it
submissively, and the twenty-two kings who still possessed a shadow of
autonomy in the country sent assurances of their devotion to the new
monarch: even Yakinlu, King of Arvad, who had aroused suspicion by
frequent acts of insubordination,** thought twice before rebelling
against his terrible suzerain, and joined the rest in paying both
homage and tribute. Cyprus and also Phoenicia remained faithful to their
allegiance, and, what was of still more consequence, the states which
lay nearest to Egypt--Philistia, Judah, Moab, and Ammon; the Assyrians
were thus able to push forward to the Delta without losing time in
repressing rebellions along their route. The Ethiopians had entrenched
themselves at Karbaniti;*** they were, however, once more defeated, and
left; so many of their soldiers dead upon the field, tha