Note 651 — Chapter X · THE SWORD IN BABYLONIA, ASSYRIA AND PERSIA, AND ANCIENT INDIA.
Reading edition
Assyrian Discoveries
(London: Sampson Low & Co., 1876), p. 447. He gives, as a scheme of Abydenus and Berosus, the Chaldæan:—
Years.
Alorus and 9 kings before the Babylonian Flood 432,000
86 kings after B. Flood to Median conquest (1st dynasty) 34,080 (33,091)
8 Median kings (2nd dynasty) 224 (160?)
11 other (3rd dynasty) unknown
49 Chaldæan (4th dynasty) 458
9 Arabian (5th dynasty) 245
Semiramis 45 kings (7th dynasty) 526
Nabonidus, the antiquary king (
b.c.
555), according to a Cylinder found at Sipar (Sepharvaim, Sun-city) and studied by Mr. Pinches, assigns a date to the deified Sargina of about
b.c.
3,800 years. He unburied, 18 cubits below the surface, the Cylinder of Naramsin, son of Sargina (
b.c.
3750?), ‘which no king had seen for 3,200 years.’ Sir Henry C. Rawlinson (the
Athenæum
, Dec. 9, 1882) is disposed to accept the date ‘within certain limits.’