He there took a city which bore the same name as the country--a city previously, he tells us, taken by his father--and transported the inhabitants into Assyria, at the same time carrying off certain images of the Edomite gods.

Hereupon the king, who was named Hazael, sent an embassy to Nineveh, to make submission and offer presents, while at the same time he supplicated Isar-haddon to restore his gods and allow them to be conveyed back to their own proper country.

Esarhaddon granted the request, and restored the images to the envoy; but as a compensation for this boon, he demanded an increase of the annual tribute, which was augmented in consequence by sixty-five camels.

He also nominated to the Edomite throne, either in succession or in joint sovereignty, a female named Tabua, who had been born and brought up in his own palace.
The expedition next mentioned on Esar-haddon's principal cylinder is one presenting some difficulty.

The scene of it is a country called Bazu, which is said to be "remote, on the extreme confines of the earth, on the other side of the desert." It was reached by traversing it hundred and forty _farsakhs_ (490 miles) of sandy desert, then twenty _farsakhs_ (70 miles) of fertile land, and beyond that a stony region.