later documents. Both the Egyptian wars have now been definitely
assigned to the king, and the making of two expeditions into Egypt has
pushed the one against Baal of Tyre up to the position of third. The
octagon B dates from the midst of the revolt of Shamash shum ukin and
is a most highly "corrected" document. [Footnote: G. Smith,
_passim;_ Jensen, KB. II. 240 ff.; Menant, 278 ff.; for the
duplicate K. 1729 from which most of the B text is taken, cf. Johns,
PSBA. XXVII. 97.]

The story of the Shamash shum ukin revolt is continued by Cylinder C,
a decagon, whose form points to the fact that it is a fuller
edition. In general, its text holds an intermediate position between A
and B, the lists of Syrian and Cypriote kings, which are copied
verbatim from the Cylinder B of Esarhaddon, [Footnote: V. 13 ff.]
being found only in it. [Footnote: Rm. 3; G. Smith, 30 ff., 178 ff.,
cf. 15, 52, 151, 319; S. A. Smith, II. 25 ff.; Menant, 277 f. Jensen,
KB. II. 238 ff., 266 ff.] With C should in all probability be listed
two decagons one of which is called Cylinder D. [Footnote: G. Smith,
317 f. K. 1794; III. R. 27a; S. A. Smith, II. 18, cf. G. Smith, 319.]
Then comes a document which we may call H, with several duplicates,
and as the Ummanaldas episode is dealt with in fuller form than in A,
it probably dates earlier. [Footnote: K. 2656; G. Smith, 215 ff. Are
the duplicates mentioned here to be found in K. 2833 and K. 3085,
G. Smith, 205?] For the Tamaritu events, we have a group of tablets of
unknown connections. [Footnote: K. 1364; 3062; 2664; 3101; 2631;
G. Smith, 243 ff.-Where we are to place the cylinder Rm. 281, dealing
with Urtaki's reign, Winckler, AOF. I. 478 n. 2, cannot be told until
it is published.]

All the documents thus far considered are fuller and more accurate in