Dur-Atkharas is unknown. Billerbeck places
it hypotheti-cally on the stream of Mendeli, and his
conjecture is in itself very plausible. I should incline,
however, to place it more to the south, on account of the
passage in which it is said that the Kalda, to complete the
defences of the town, brought a canal from the Shurappu and
fortified its banks. The Shurappu, according to Delitzsch,
would be the Shatt Umm-el-Jemal; according to Delattrc, the
Kerkha; the account of the campaign under consideration
would lead me to recognise in it a watercourse like the Tib,
which runs into the Tigris near Amara, in which case the
ruins of Kherib would perhaps correspond with the site of
Dur-Atkharas.

A single morning sufficed to disperse them, and the Assyrians, entering
the city with the fugitives, took possession of it on the same day. They
made 16,490 prisoners, and seized horses, mules, asses, camels, and
both sheep and oxen in large numbers. Eight of the chiefs of the
neighbourhood, who ruled over the flat country between the Shurappu and
the Uknu, begged for mercy as soon as they learned the result of the
engagement. The name of Dur-Atkharas was changed to that of Dur-Nebo,
the territory of the Gambulu was converted into a province, and its
organisation having been completed, the army continued its march,
sweeping before it the Eua, the Khindaru, the Puqudu, in short, all the
tribes occupying the district of Yatbur. The chiefs of these provinces
sought refuge in the morasses of the lower Kerkha, but finding
themselves surrounded and short of provisions, they were forced by
famine to yield to the enemy, and came to terms with the Assyrians, who
imposed a tribute on them and included them within the new province
of Gambulu. The goal of this expedition was thus attained, and Blam
separated from Karduniash, but the issue of the war remained undecided
as long as Shutruk-nakhunta held the cities at the edge of the plain,
from which he could emerge at will into the heart of the Assyrian
position. The conqueror therefore turned in that direction, rapidly took
from him the citadels of Shamuna and Babduri, then those of Lakhirimmu
and Pillutu, and pitched his camp on the bank of the Naditi, from whence
he despatched marauding bands to pillage the country. Dismay spread
throughout the district of Rashi; the inhabitants, abandoning their
cities--Til-Khumba, Durmishamash, Bubi,