C., Dayan-assiir pushed forward into
Khubushkia, and traversed it from end to end without encountering any
resistance. He next attacked the Mannai. Their prince, Ualki, quailed
before his onslaught; he deserted his royal city Zirtu,* and took refuge
in the mountains. Dayan-assur pursued him thither in vain, but he was
able to collect considerable booty, and turning in a south-easterly
direction, he fought his way along the base of the Gordysean mountains
till he reached Parsua, which he laid under tribute. In 830 B.C. it was
the turn of Muzazir, which hitherto had escaped invasion, to receive a
visit from the Tartan. Zapparia, the capital, and fifty-six other towns
were given over to the flames. From thence, Dayan-assur passed into
Urartu proper; after having plundered it, he fell back on the southern
provinces, collecting by the way the tribute of Guzan, of the Mannai,
of Andiu,** and Parsua; he then pushed on into the heart of Namri, and
having razed to the ground two hundred and fifty of its towns, returned
with his troops to Assyria by the defiles of Shimishi and through
Khalman.

* The town is elsewhere called Izirtu, and appears to have
been designated in the inscriptions of Van by the name of
Sisiri-Khadiris.

** Andia or Andiu is contiguous to Nairi, to Zikirtu and to
Karalla, which latter borders on Manna; it bordered on the
country of Misa or Misi, into which it is merged under the
name of Misianda in the time of Sargon. Delattre places
Andiu in the country of the classical Matiense, between the
Mationian mountains and Lake Urumiah. The position of Misu
on the confines of Araziash and Media, somewhere in the
neighbourhood of Talvantu-Dagh, obliges us to place Andiu
lower down to the south-east, near the district of Kurdasir.

This was perhaps the last foreign campaign of Shalmaneser III.'s reign;
it is at all events the last of which we possess any history. The record
of his exploits ends, as it had begun more than thirty years previously,
with a victory in Namri.

[Illustration: 137.jpg BLACK OBELISK OF SHALMANESER III]

Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from the cast in the Louvre. [The
original is in the Brit. Mus.--Tr.]

The aged king had, indeed, well earned the right to end his allotted
days in peace. Devoted to Calah, like his predecessor, he had there
accumulated the spoils of his campaigns, and had made it the
wealthiest city of his e