what has been lost. Column II of B must have been devoted in part to
the final defeat of the rebels and in part to the introduction to the
long narrative concerning Nabu zer lishir. As at least four lines were
devoted to this introduction in the usually much shorter D, it must
have been fairly long in B. Why A omitted all this is a question. That
these two events are the first in the reign is made clear by the
Babylonian Chronicle, so that thus far the chronological order has
been followed. The next event in B and the first in A is the story of
the Sidon troubles, and again the Chronicle shows it to be in
chronological order. Since A has no less than 49 lines to deal with
the events in the lost beginning of column III, it is clear that the
much fuller B has here lost much. In the gap in Column IV, we are to
place the Aduma narrative and the traces where we can begin to read
show that they are in the conclusion of the Median
troubles. [Footnote: _Shepashun_ of B. is the _elishun ukin_
is virtually the same as _ukin sirushun_.] For the lost part of
the fifth column, we must count the Iadi and Gambulu expeditions, and
a part of the building narrative. About the same building account as
in A must be placed at the commencement of column VI. The irregularity
in the minimum numbers for the different columns, on the basis of A,
shows that B had in some cases much longer accounts than in others,
and this is confirmed where B gives a complete list of Arabian and of
Syrian kings while A does not. These minimum numbers also indicate
that but about one-fourth of B has been preserved. However, the
overlapping gives us some reason to hope that nearly all its facts
have been preserved in the one or the other edition.

We have already seen that strict chronology is followed by B, strange
to relate, in the order, punishment of the assassins, 681, Babylon,
680, and Sidon, 677. Then A gives the Kundu troubles which, according