To complete our study of the sources for the reign, the more
specifically building inscriptions may be noted. [Footnote:
Meissner-Rost, _Bauinschriften Sanheribs_, 1893.] The greater
part of what we know concerning the building operations of the reign
comes from the documents already discussed. Of the specifically
building inscriptions, perhaps the most important is the New Year's
House inscription from Ashur, [Footnote: MDOG. 33, 14.] and the
excavations there have also given a good number of display
inscriptions on slabs [Footnote: KTA. 43 ff., 73 f.; MDOG. 21, 13 ff.;
22, 17 ff.; 26, 27 ff. 43, 31; 44, 29.] and on bricks, [Footnote:
I. R. 7, VIII. H; Bezold, KB. 114f; KTA. 46-49; 72; MDOG. 20, 24; 21,
12 ff. 22, 15; 25, 36 f.] as well as some building prisms. [Footnote:
MDOG. 21, 37; 25, 22f; 47, 39.]

Esarhaddon (686-668), [Footnote: Inscriptions of the reign collected
by Budge,_History of Esarhaddon_, 1880.] like the others of his
dynasty, prepared elaborate Annals. [Footnote: First reference,
G. Smith, TSBA. III. 457. Boscawen, _ibid_. IV. 84 ff.; III
R. 35, 4; Budge, 114 ff.; Rogers, _Haverford Studies_,
II. Winckler, _Untersuch z. altor. Gesch._, 97f; Winckler,
_Textbuch_, 52 ff.; Ungnad, I. 123; Rogers, 357 ff. Cf. also
G. Smith, _Disc_. 311ff.; Delattre, _L'Asie_, 149; Olmstead,
_Bull. Amer. Geog. Soc_., XLIV. 1912, 434.] It is a poetic
justice rarely found in history that the man who so ruthlessly
destroyed the Annals of Tiglath Pileser IV is today known to us by
still smaller fragments of his own. Aside from five mutilated lines
from the ninth expedition, only a part of the first expedition against
Egypt has survived and that in a very incomplete manner. We are
accordingly dependent for our knowledge of the reign on the display
inscriptions, with all their possibilities for error, and only the