[The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea by George Rawlinson]@TWC D-Link bookThe Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea CHAPTER VIII 33/75
1520, when he left his crown to his son, Samsu-iluna.
Of this monarch our notices are exceedingly scanty.
We know him only from the Tel-Sifr clay tablets, several of which are dated by the years of his reign.
He held the crown probably from about B.C.1520 to B.C.
1500. About sixty or seventy years after this we come upon a group of names, belonging almost certainly to this same dynasty, which possess a peculiar interest, inasmuch as they serve to connect the closing period of the First, or Chaldaean, with the opening portion of the Second, or Assyrian, Monarchy.
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