On the contrary, it is plain that they are a very incomplete list, like that which Herodotus gives of the kings of Egypt, or that which the later Romans possessed of their early monarchs.

The monuments themselves present indications of several other names of kings, belonging evidently to the same series, which are too obscure or too illegible for transliteration.

And there may, of course, have been many others of whom no traces remain, or of whom none have been as yet found.

On the other hand, it may be observed, that the number of the early Chaldaean kings reported by Polyhistor is preposterous.

If sixty-eight consecutive monarchs held the Chaldaean throne between B.C.2286 and B.C.1546, they must have reigned on an average, less than eleven years apiece.