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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. Excerpt:...according to the list. The first element in the name Mili is equivalent to msu, "a man." 40 BUR-NA-BUR-YA-A-AS. This monarch is probably the first bearing the name Burna-buryas; a later king of the same name has left some inscriptions. Burna is equivalent to the Assyrian ki-din. 41 KA-ARA-BEL. This name is the last in our fragmentary list of monarchs; here there is a break in the succession, until we come to Harbi-sihu. To this interval perhaps belongs the following monarch:--42 SA-GA-SAL-TI-YA-AS. Saga-saltiyas is mentioned in an inscription of Nabonidus,1 he appears to have rebuilt the temples of the Sun and Venus at Sippara. The passage is as follows: "digging the memorial cylinder of Bit-ulmas written record of Saga-saltiyas.... (in) that digging I saw also... his written record, recorded: '(saga-saltiyas) the supreme ruler, the glorious prince.... am I. When (g.) Samas and (g.) Anunit to the dominion of the country my name proclaimed, the power of all people in my hand they placed. Then Bit-parra the house of (g.) Samas ot (c.) Sippara my Lord, and Bit-ulmas the house of Anunit of (r.) Sippara, (g.) Anunit my Lady, which were from the time of Zabu in ancient days; their chamber walls had fallen in. Their chamber walls I destroyed, their foundations I opened, the earth I removed, their chambers I cleared, their structure I caused to make, I filled their foundations with earth, I restored their walls to their places. 1 Cuneiform Inscriptions, Vol. 1, p. 69, col. 3, lines 19 to 43. I beautified their structure, greater than before I caused them to be, to please (g.) Samas and (g.) Anunit. At my building work may their heart rejoice... progress to my days may they give, exaltation to my head prosperity to my years, giving delight for ever.... sup...