t Taharqa had
not sufficient troops left to defend Memphis.

* The text of Tablet K 2675-K 228 of the Brit. Mus., states
distinctly that the Tartan commanded the first army.

** Assur-bani-pal, acting in the name of his father,
Esarhaddon, King of Assyria, had consulted Shamash on the
desirability of sending troops against Arvad: the prince of
this city is called Ikkalu, which is a variant of Yakinlu.
Winckler concluded that the campaign against Arvad took
place before 668 B.C., in the reign of Esarhaddon. It seems
to me more natural to place it on the return from Egypt,
when the people of Arvad were demoralised by the defeat of
the Pharaoh whose alliance they had hoped for.

*** I had compared Karbaniti with the Qarbina mentioned in
the _Great Harris Papyrus_, and this identification was
accepted by most Egyptologists, even after Brugsch
recognised in Qarbina the name of Canopus or a town near
Canopus. It has been contested by Steindorf, and, in fact,
Karbaniti could not be identified with Canopus, any more
than the Qarbina of the Harris Papyrus; its site must be
looked for in the eastern or central part of the Delta.

He retreated upon Thebes, where he strongly fortified himself; but the
Tartan had not suffered less than his adversary, and he would have been
unable to pursue him, had not reinforcements promptly reached him. The
Bab-shakeh, who had been despatched from Nineveh with some Assyrian
troops, had summoned to his aid the principal Syrian feudal chiefs, who,
stimulated by the news of the victories achieved on the banks of the
Nile, placed themselves unreservedly at his disposal. He ordered
their vessels to proceed along the coast as far as the Delta, where
he purposed to collect a fleet to ascend the river, while their
troops augmented the force already under his command. The two Assyrian
generals, the Tartan and the Rabshakeh, quitted Memphis, probably in the
early part of 667 B.C., and, cautiously advancing southwards, covered
the distance separating the two Egyptian capitals in a steady march
of forty days. When the Assyrians had advanced well up the valley, the
princes of the Delta thought the opportunity had arrived to cut them
off by a single bold stroke. They therefore opened cautious negotiations
with the Ethiopian king, and proposed an arrangement which should secure
their independence: "We will divide