_Eponym Canon_, 167 ff. The text, so far as I know, has never
been published, even in connection with the elaborate study of the
Nahr el Kelb sculptures by Boscawen, TSBA. VII. 345. I have been able
to use the squeeze taken in 1904 in connection with Messrs. Charles
and Wrench, but much less can now be seen than what Smith evidently
found on the cast. Cast, Bonomi, _Trans. Roy. Soc. Lit._,
III. 105; _Nineveh and its Palaces_, 5 f. 86. 142 ff., 367.]

We have a considerable number of building inscriptions, but there are
few source problems in connection with them. [Footnote: Collected in
Meissner-Rost, _Beitr. z. Assyr_., III. 189 ff. Thureau-Dangin,
_Rev. Assyr_. XI, 96 ff.] Perhaps the most important is the prism
which tells so much in regard to the earliest days of
Assyria. [Footnote: KTA. 51; MDOG. 25, 33.] Another important document
is the Black Stone, a four sided prism with archaistic writing. It was
found at Nineveh, though it deals with the rebuilding of Babylon, and
seems to date from the first year. [Footnote: I R. 49; Winckler,
KB. II. 120 ff.; Meissner-Rost, 218 ff. Oppert, _Exped._, I. 180
f.; Menant, 248; _Babylone et Chaldee_, 167 f.; Harper, 88
f. King, _Supplement_, 38, dates from Aru of accession year.] Two
others date after 675 as the one on a stone slab from the south west
palace at Kalhu states that he took captive the king of Meluh,
[Footnote: L. 19a. Winckler, KB. II. 150 f. Oppert, _Exped._,
I. 324; Menant, 240.] and the other stone tablet gives him Egyptian
titles, [Footnote: I R. 48, 5; Winckler, KB. II. 150 f.;
Meissner-Rost, 204 ff.; Menant, 249.] so that they must be placed
after the capture of that country. We may also mention in conclusion
the one which gives the restoration of the Ishtar temple at Uruk
[Footnote: 81-6-7, 209: Winckler, KB, II. 120 n. 1; Barton,
_Proc. Amer. Or. Soc._, 1891, cxxx.] and the various ones found