Note 22 — Chapter VIII

There were about thirteen kings of the Eighth Dynasty, and, though their names are completely wanting in the Kings' List, some of them are preserved in records concerning their relations with Assyria. In the gap between Nabû-mukîn-apli and Shamash-mudammik we may probably place Sibir, a Babylonian king whom Ashur-nasir-pal mentions as having founded Atlila, a city in Zamua, which he himself rebuilt as a royal residence and renamed Dûr-Ashur (cf. "Annals," p. 325). It is improbable that Sibir was one of the missing rulers of the Kassite Dynasty, the only other period to which his reign could be assigned. For the broken name [....-akh]ê-iddina, possibly that of another ruler of this period, see "Chronicles," II., p. 63.