oclaims himself "adda" of Martu, Lord of the countries of
the West, and we are in the possession of several facts which suggest
the idea of a great Blamite empire, with a dominion extending for some
period over Western Asia, the existence of which was vaguely hinted
at by the Greeks, who attributed its glory to the fabulous Memnon.*
Contemporary records are still wanting which might show whether
Kudur-mabug inherited these distant possessions from one of his
predecessors--such as Kudur-nakhunta, for instance--or whether he
won them himself at the point of the sword; but a fragment of an old
chronicle, inserted in the Hebrew Scriptures, speaks distinctly of
another Elamite, who made war in person almost up to the Egyptian
frontier.** This is the Kudur-lagamar (Chedorlaomer) who helped Eimsin
against Hammurabi, but was unable to prevent his overthrow.

* We know that to Herodotus (v. 55) Susa was the city of
Memnon, and that Strabo attributes its foundation to
Tithonus, father of Memnon. According to Oppert, the word
Memnon is the equivalent of the Susian Umman-anin, "the
house of the king:" Weissbach declares that "anin" does not
mean king, and contradicts Oppert's view, though he does not
venture to suggest a new explanation of the name.

** _Gen._ xiv. Prom the outset Assyriologists have never
doubted the historical accuracy of this chapter, and they
have connected the facts which it contains with those which
seem to be revealed by the Assyrian monuments. The two
Rawlinsons intercalate Kudur-lagamar between Kudur-nakhunta
and Kudur-mabug, and Oppert places him about the same
period. Fr. Lenormant regards him as one of the successors
of Kudur-mabug, possibly his immediate successor. G. Smith
does not hesitate to declare positively that the Kudur-mabug
and Kudur-nakhunta of the inscriptions are one and the same
with the Kudur-lagamar (Chedor-laomer) of the Bible.
Finally, Schrader, while he repudiates Smith's view, agrees
in the main fact with the other Assyriologists. On the other
hand, the majority of modern Biblical critics have
absolutely refused to credit the story in Genesis. Sayce
thinks that the Bible story rests on an historic basis, and
his view is strongly confirmed by Pinches'discovery of a
Chaldaean document which mentions Kudur-lagamar and two of
his allies. The Hebrew histori