Kandalānu and Ašurbanipal

Extract

Among the unfinished papers left by the late Dr. Johns, Mrs. Johns has found one which he was preparing on the dated tablets of the reign of Kandalānu, last Assyrian viceroy of Babylonia, who succeeded Šamaš-šum-ukšn, brother of Ašurbanipal of Assyria. It is certain from a group of tablets from Dilbat, now in the Ašshmolean Museum (Weld Collection), that Kandalānu (Κινηλαδνου) and Ašurbanipal were the same persons; for this group of tablets from the same collection has the following dates: 1924, 487, Belibni, year 2, month Šabat, day 29; 1924, 489, Ašur-nādin-šumi, year 4, month Adar, day 2; 1924, 491, Ašur-aḫi-iddin, year 6, month Tebit, day 27; one in possession of Major A. H. Burn, C.I.E., Delhi, India, Ašur-aḫi-iddin, year 8, month Ab, day 8; 1924, 490, Kan-da-la-nu, year 15, month Kislev, day 9; 1924, 485, Kan-da-la-nu, year 19, month Nisan, day 14; one in possession of R. S. Cooke, Esq., Ministry of Awqaf, Baghdad, Kan-da-la-nu, year 17, month Šabat, day 3; 1924, 482, Kan-da-la-nu, year 15, month Kislev, day 9; 1924, 484, Ašur-bāni-apli, year 23, month Nisan, day 29; 1928,1, excavated at Ḫursagkalamma in 1927 by M. Watelin, but dated at Erech, Ašur-bāni-apli, year 18, month Ululu, day 21.