A single morning sufficed to disperse them, and the Assyrians, entering the city with the fugitives, took possession of it on the same day.  They made 16,490 prisoners, and seized horses, mules, asses, camels, and both sheep and oxen in large numbers.  Eight of the chiefs of the neighbourhood, who ruled over the flat country between the Shurappu and the Uknu, begged for mercy as soon as they learned the result of the engagement.  The name of Dur-Atkharas was changed to that of Dur-Nebo, the territory of the Gambulu was converted into a province, and its organisation having been completed, the army continued its march, sweeping before it the Eua, the Khindaru, the Puqudu, in short, all the tribes occupying the district of Yatbur.  The chiefs of these provinces sought refuge in the morasses of the lower Kerkha, but finding themselves surrounded and short of provisions, they were forced by famine to yield to the enemy, and came to terms with the Assyrians, who imposed a tribute on them and included them within the new province of Gambulu.  The goal of this expedition was thus attained, and Blam separated from Karduniash, but the issue of the war remained undecided as long as Shutruk-nakhunta held the cities at the edge of the plain, from which he could emerge at will into the heart of the Assyrian position.  The conqueror therefore turned in that direction, rapidly took from him the citadels of Shamuna and Babduri, then those of Lakhirimmu and Pillutu, and pitched his camp on the bank of the Naditi, from whence he despatched marauding bands to pillage the country.  Dismay spread throughout the district of Rashi; the inhabitants, abandoning their cities—­Til-Khumba, Durmishamash, Bubi, and Khamanu—­migrated as far as Bit-Imbi; Shutruk-nakhunta, overcome with fear, took refuge, so it was said, in the distant mountains to preserve his life.*

* None of these places can be identified with certainty.  So far as I can follow the account of this campaign on the map, it seems that the attacks upon Shutruk-nakhunta took place on the plain and in the mountains between the Ab-i-Gengir and the Tib, so that the river Naditi would be the Aftah or one of its tributaries.  If this were so, Lakhirimmu and Pillutu would be situated somewhere near the Jughai ben Ruan and the Tope Ghulamen of de Morgan’s map of Elam, Shamuna near Zirzir-tepi, Babduri near Hosseini-yeh.  But I wish it to be understood that I do not consider these comparisons as more than simple conjectures.  Bit-Imbi was certainly out of the reach of the Assyrians, since it was used as a place of refuge by the inhabitants of Rashi; at the same time it must have been close to Rashi, since the people of this country fled thither.  The site of Ghilan which de Morgan has adopted on his map seems to me to be too far north to comply with these conditions, and that of Tapa, approved by Billerboek, too southerly.  If, as I believe, Rashi corresponds to the regions of Pushti-kuh which lie on both sides of the upper waters of