double enceinte, through
which he broke after forty-eight hours of continuous assault: 800 of
its men perished in the breach, and 700 others were impaled before the
gates.

* It is difficult to place any of these localities on the
map: they ought all to be found between the ford of the
Tigris, at Diarbeldr and the Euphrates, probably at the foot
of the Mihrab-dagh and the Kirwantchernen-dagh.

** Madara belonged to a certain Lapturi, son of Tubusi,
mentioned in the campaign of the king's second year. In
comparing the facts given in the two passages, we see it was
situated on the eastern slope of the Kashiari, not far from
Tushkhan on one side, and Ardupa--that is probably Mardin--?
on the other. The position of Ortaveran, or of one of the
"tells" in its neighbourhood, answers fairly well to these
conditions.

*** According to the details given in the _Annals_, we must
place the town of Bitura (or Pitura) at about 19 miles from
Kurkh, on the other side of the Tigris, in a north-easterly
direction, and consequently the country of Lirra would be
between the Hazu-tchai and the Batman-tchai. The Matni, with
its passes leading in to Nairi, must in this case be the
mountain group to the north of Mayafarrikin, known as the
Dordoseh-dagh or the Darkosh-dagh.

Arbaki, at the extreme limits of Eirkhi, was the next to succumb, after
which the Assyrians, having pillaged Dirra, carried the passes of Matni
after a bloody combat, spread themselves over Nairi, burning 250 of its
towns and villages, and returned with immense booty to Tushkhan. They
had been there merely a few days when the newt arrived that the people
of Bit-Zamani, always impatient of the yoke, had murdered their
prince Ammibaal, and had proclaimed a certain Burramman in his place.
Assur-nazir-pal marched upon Sinabux and repressed the insurrection,
reaping a rich harvest of spoil--chariots fully equipped, 600
draught-horses, 130 pounds of silver and as much of gold, 6600 pounds of
lead and the same of copper, 19,800 pounds of iron, stuffs, furniture
in gold and ivory, 2000 bulls, 500 sheep, the entire harem of Ammibaal,
besides a number of maidens of noble family together with their dresses.
Burramman was by the king's order flayed alive, and Arteanu his brother
chosen as his successor. Sinabu* and the surrounding towns formed part
of that network of colonies whic