instead of the seventh as in B, while the Gambulu expedition is also
listed in the fifth though B makes it the eighth! The death of Gyges
is added immediately after the other Lydian narrative, without a hint
that years had intervened. The elaborate account of Teumman given by B
has been cut decidedly and the interesting Ishtar dream is entirely
omitted.

The same is true of the Gambulu narrative. While B and C have the data
as to the Elamite side of the revolt of Shamash shum ukin, the
introduction and conclusion as well as many new details are found only
in A. It is curious to find here, for the first time, the greater part
of the long list of conquered Egyptian kings, written down when Egypt
was forever freed from Assyrian rule. That Cylinder B was not its
immediate source is shown by the fact that in the first Egyptian
expedition it gives the pardon of Necho, which is not in B, but is
found in the earlier F.

Although this document has regularly been presented as the base text,
largely because it gives a view of the greater part of the reign,
enough should have been said in the preceding paragraph to prove how
unworthy of the honor it is. Of all the cases where such procedure has
caused damage, this is the worst. For the years from which we have no
other data, we must use it, and we may hope that, as this period was
nearer the time of its editors, its information may here be of more
value. But we should recognize once and for all that the other
portions are worthless and worse than worthless, save as they indicate
the "corrections" to the actual history thought necessary by the royal
scribes.

Later than this in date, in all probability, is the document we may