in person. [Footnote: King, _op. cit._, p. 10.] The occasion for
this new edition is not to be found, however, in these petty frontier
wars, but in the completion of the new palace, in the increase in the
size of the city of Nineveh, in the building of a park, and in the
installation of a water supply, as these take up nearly a half of the
inscription. The recovery of this document has also enabled us to
place in the same group two other fragments, now recognized as
duplicates. [Footnote: BM. 102, 996, King, _Cuneiform Texts_,
XXVI. 38; cf. p. 15, n. 1; K. 4492, ibid. 39, not a reference to
Tarbisi, as Meiasner-Rost, _Bauinschriften_, 94f; as is shown by
King, p. 18 n. 1.]

At about the same time must be placed the various inscriptions on the
bulls which were intended to decorate this new palace. One contains
only five expeditions, [Footnote: Bull 2, Smith-Sayce, 3, 24, 30 f.,
43, 51 f., 53, 67 f., 73, 78 f.,86. L. 60 ff. (Bull 1 occurs only
Smith-Sayce, 3.)] the other has a brief sketch of the sixth,
[Footnote: Bull 3, Smith-Sayce, _l. c._, and also 88 f.] but both
have references to the enthronement of the crown prince Ashur nadin
shum in Babylon. [Footnote: Smith-Sayce, 30 f.] Still another gives a
very full account of the sixth expedition, but there is no mention of
Ashur nadin shum. [Footnote: Bull 4, Smith-Sayce, 3 f., 24, 32 ff.,
43, 51, 53, 65 ff.; 73, 77 ff., 89 ff.; A. Paterson, _Palace of
Sinacherib_, 5 f.; III R. 12 f.; L. 38 ff.] This dates very closely
the inscriptions of the period. The new inscription was written in
August of 694. At this time as well as when the inscription was placed
on Bull II, the news of the sixth expedition, that across the Persian
Gulf to Nagitu, had not yet come in. When this arrived, a brief
account was hastily compiled and added to Bull III. But before a
fuller narrative could be prepared, news came of the capture of Ashur