Sardanapalus, the eponym of Oriental luxury, furnishes a good subject for this style of composition.
As much is suggested by the following entry in an eponym list.
The Eponym Canon tells us that "the king took the hands of Bel.
The length of his reign, and the scanty details we possess concerning it, have been learnt from the Eponym Canon and Pinches' Babylonian Chronicle, and also from the Hebrew texts (2 Kings xvii.
Our knowledge of these events is imperfect, our only information being derived from the very scanty details given in the Eponym Canon; up to the present we can do no more than trace the general course of events.
After him came a period of decline in which there are no royal inscriptions, and of which our knowledge comes from brief notes in the Eponym lists.
A bronze sword, on which he calls himself king of Kishshati; an inscription, the oldest yet found with an eponym date.
Cyrus is given in exactly the same way as in the proclamation of Cyrus himself; Teispes is called here the son of the eponym Achaemenes.
Korah, later the eponym of a gild of singers, perhaps over the more subordinate ministers who once formed a separate class.
What Sennacherib himself relates of his expedition against his rebellious vassals in Palestine (George Smith, Assyrian Eponym Canon, p.
According to George Smith, the Assyrian year commenced at the vernal equinox; the Assyrian use depends on the Babylonian (Assyrian Eponym Canon, p.
This, however, as we learn from theEponym Canon, was not all.
Sargon did not raze the city, and we see from the Eponym Canon that its inhabitants were still strong enough some years later to take part in a futile revolt.
Dates from theEponym Canon and the Assyrian Monuments; Schrader, Cuneiform Inscriptions, and the Old Testament, E.
The account of his decisive conquest is preserved in the Eponym Canon, and the passages which refer to the defeat of the Syrians will be found in the First Appendix at the end of the volume.
Eponym Year (which is not here given) marks the second complete year of each king's reign.
In the Eponym Canon he is called an Egyptian general, Sibakhi, who helped Gaza against Assyria, and was defeated.
If Cain is the eponym of the Kenites it is quite possible that Abel was originally a South Judaean demigod or hero; on this, see Winckler, Gesch.
This interval does not depend upon a mere list of Eponym years; we have in the annals of Sargon and Sennacherib full particulars of the events in all the intervening years.
To all appearance the Sabara'in of the Babylonian Chronicle is the place which should be supplied in the historical Eponym Canon, but, if so, the form is a strange one.
Thus is ushered in, in theEponym Canon, one of the most important reigns in Assyrian history.
Campaigns against the district of the mountains of Nal and Ararat, the former as a preparation for the latter, follow, after which comes, according to the Eponym Canon, an expedition to the land Pilista.
In the Eponym Canon the entries for the two years following the campaign to Pilista (i.
As will be seen from the Eponym Canon, an expedition was in progress when he assumed the reins of power, so that he may have taken advantage of the absence of Tiglath-pileser to carry out his design.
Short as it is, however, it is probably of as much value historically as the Assyrian Eponym Canon in its present state, even including the restorations from that without historical notices.
There are eponym canons, statistical lists, diplomatic letters, military reports; but none of these rise to the dignity of history.
Two recensions of these eponym lists have come down.
M806) The Bêlshunu here named is probably the Eponym of B.
In Assyrian history the Eponym Canon certainly goes back to about B.
This particular tribe seems to have wandered for some time on the outskirts of Chaldea and in the land itself, as indicated by the name given to its eponym in Chap.
The Assyrians kept chronological lists called by scholars "Eponym Canons," which are of great importance in determining the chronology of Hebrew history at a number of obscure points.
The Assyrian kings kept lists of years and of principal events, to which scholars have given the name "Eponym Lists," because each year was named after the king or some officer.
The Eponym lists are merely lists of the officials who dated each year in rotation, and they seem to have been compiled for practical calendar purposes.
Assyrian historical inscriptions, dates the events by the name of the eponym for the year, and, still more unusual, by the month as well.
In my owneponym in the month of July[18] and the 24th day (probably B.
Thus in the year of Sennacherib’s office as eponym (687 B.
