In the fourth and fifth years, 678-676 BC., an expedition was made into Palestine, Phenicia, and Cilicia. In the second and third years of Esar-haddon “the Gimiri marched against Assyria, and,” says the king, “Ti-uspa, the Gimirian, a roving warrior, whose own country was remote, in the province of Khubasna, him and all his army I destroyed with the sword.” Every year without fail, with great presents to Nineveh he came and kissed my feet.” The province of the seacoast, the whole of it, which was the inheritance of his brother, I gave to him. “Neith-Marduk his brother, the deeds in the land of Elam which I had done to his brother, seeing, from the land of Elam fled, and to do homage to me came into Assyria, and supplicated my majesty. In Elam the king of Elam took him and slew him with the sword.” The Babylonian account of this is that “in the first year of Esar-haddon, Zira-kina-esir of the seacoast, when he had laid fetters on the city of Erech, the city of Erech destroyed in the sight of the officers of Assyria, and fled to the country of Elam. In Elam the king of Elam took him and slew him with a sword.” Then he, Nebo-zir-ziz, who was a gluttonous, vile, ignoble man, hearing of the march of my troops, fled away contemptibly to the land of Elam. My officers and magistrates who were nearest his land, I sent against him. “When I heard at Nineveh of his evil doings, my heart swelled: my liver was inflamed with rage. He would not even inquire after the health of my majesty. He gave me no more gifts, he would not do homage to me, and his envoy to my presence he would not send. After he had secured his place upon the throne, Esar-haddon was obliged to march to Chaldea for there a son of Merodach-Baladan, Nebo-zira-kina-esir, had set up for himself, and, says Esar-haddon, had marched “against Nin-gal, prefect of Ur, who was my loyal subject, and killed him with the sword.
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