Title: History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry), 1845-1933
Subjects: Civilization, Ancient History, Ancient
Publisher: London : Grolier Society
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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he oldest yet discovered, which is dated in the month Sebat(Jan.-Feb.), in the year of his accession, and consequently prior to the secondyear of Nebuchadrezzar, comes from Abu-habba. On the other hand, thestatement that aU the revolts broke out while Darius was at Babylon does not allow of the supposition that all the events recorded before hisdeparture for Media could have been compressed into the space of three orfour months. It seems, therefore, more probable that the siege lasted till519 B.C., as it can well have done if credit be given to the mention of twenty-one months at least by Herodotus ; perhaps the siege was broughtto an end in the May of that year, as calculated by Marquart. 166 THE IRANIAN CONQUEST the Persian adventurer Martiya to stir up the Susiansto revolt in his rear failed, thanks to the favourable dis-position of the natives, who refused to recognise in himUmmanlsh, the heir of their national princes. Media,however, yielded unfortunately to the sohcitations of a
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DARIUS PIEECmO A KEBEL WITH HIS LANCE BEFOKE A GKOUP OP FOUR PBISONEES. certain Fravartish, who had assumed the personality ofKhshatrita of the race of Cyaxares, and its revolt markedalmost the beginning of a total break-up of the empire.The memory of Astyages and Cyaxares had not yet fadedso completely as to cause the Median nobles to relinquishthe hope of reasserting the supremacy of Media; theopportunity for accomplishing this aim now seemed all ^ Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from the impression of an intaglio at St.Petersburg. INSURRECTION IN ARMENIA AND ASSYRIA 167 the more favourable, from the fact that Darius had beenobliged to leave this province almost immediately afterthe assassination of the usurper, and to take from it allthe troops that he could muster for the siege of Babylon.Several of the nomadic tribes still remained faithful tohim, but all the settled inhabitants of Media rangedthemselves under the banner of the pretender, and thespirit of insurrection spread thereupon in

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