** The tablet discovered by Pinches is broken after the fifth king of the dynasty.  The inscription of Agumkakrime, containing a genealogy of this prince which goes back as far as the fifth generation, has led to the restoration of the earlier part of the list as follows: 

Gandish, Gaddash, Adumitasii .... 1655-?  B.C. 
Gande ........................... 1714-1707 B.C. 
Tassigurumash.................... ? 
Agumrabi, his son................ 1707-1685
Agumkakrime ..................... ?
[A]guyashi ...................... 1685-1663
Ushshi, his son.................. 1663-1655

This “brilliant scion of Shukamuna” entitled himself lord of the Kashshu and of Akkad, of Babylon the widespread, of Padan, of Alman, and of the swarthy Guti.* Ashnunak had been devastated; he repeopled it, and the four “houses of the world” rendered him obedience; on the other hand, Elam revolted from its allegiance, Assur resisted him, and if he still exercised some semblance of authority over Northern Syria, it was owing to a traditional respect which the towns of that country voluntarily rendered to him, but which did not involve either subjection or control.  The people of Khani still retained possession of the statues of Merodach and of his consort Zarpanit, which had been stolen, we know not how, some time previously from Chaldaea.** Agumkakrime recovered them and replaced them in their proper temple.  This was an important event, and earned him the good will of the priests.

* The translation black-headed, i.e. dark-haired and complexioned, Guti, is uncertain; Jensen interprets the epithet nishi saldati to mean “the Guti, stupid (foolish? culpable?) people.”  The Guti held both banks of the lower Zab, in the mountains on the east of Assyria.  Delitzsch has placed Padan and Alman in the mountains to the east of the Diyaleh; Jensen places them in the chain of the Khamrin, and Winckler compares Alman or Halman with the Holwan of the present day.

** The Khani have been placed by Delitzsch in the neighbourhood of Mount Khana, mentioned in the accounts of the Assyrian campaigns, that is to say, in the Amanos, between the Euphrates and the bay of Alexandretta:  he is inclined to regard the name as a form of that of the Khati.

The king reorganised public worship; he caused new fittings for the temples to be made to take the place of those which had disappeared, and the inscription which records this work enumerates with satisfaction the large quantities of crystal, jasper, and lapis-lazuli which he lavished on the sanctuary, the utensils of silver and gold which he dedicated, together with the “seas” of wrought bronze decorated with monsters and religious emblems.* This restoration of the statues, so flattering to the national pride and piety, would have been exacted and insisted upon