AN EASTERN FIND

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 23, 27 July 1933, Page 6

AN EASTERN FIND

The discovery in Irak of a tablet recording the names of Assyrian kings, starting,,in the third.nullonium, 8.C., is anuounced by a eorrespondojit;. of "The Time's." The find was'made iii tho temple of.Nabu, at Khorsa.bad, .by Dr, H. Frankfpr.tV leader of the expedition '•'•"■o.f"' the Orioii'tal Institute of Cldcago. The tablet contains, the fiamea; of earlier rujers than those hitherto known, and gives a complete succession down to the eighteenth':'icojitury. -B.C.i: with tho length of tho'reign of each king artd occasional historical jiffis from tho ■ beginning of 'the second millennium downward. Lists_ of kings, for.some periods synchronous in Assyria and"Babylonia, have, long been known from the -tablets excavated; from Ninoveh, and the earlier capital _ of Assyria, Assur. These lists, in which, there are! .gaps, and of which1 ,the earlier chronology has been difficult to fix with accuracy, go back to about 2000 8.C., and arc supplemented over, many periods by an-ample "historical, literature. The full list discovered by Dr. Frankfort appears.to cover a nujnt ber .of.-reigns., of. wliiclv the lengfli Has not yet ■been known.- , '.'. -'. .'