This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 ...and through the grace of his great-grandfather (on his mother's side), Ashshur-uballit, who forced him while still a child (sihru) upon the dissatisfied Cassites. Is it not more than natural to suppose that the Cassites would feel rather inimical towards their new king, who was in their eyes nothing but an usurper,4 occupying the throne of Babylon and swaying the royal scepter over them by the intervention and brutal force of a foreign king so inimical to their own interests? And was it not a wise and diplomatic stroke of 1 See Winckler, Z. A., II, p. 307f. 2 This very same attribute is ascribed to Kuri-Galzu also in a boundary stone (IV R.2, 38, I, 20-26 = K. B., III1, p. 162) quoted p. 65, n. 2. Kuri-Galzu, and "the son of Kadashman-Harbe, and " is identical with Kuri-Galzu, the predecessor of Meli-Shipak and Marduk-aplu-iddina (see p. 65, n. 2, end). 'See, e.g., A. R. C. 146 (Lehmann, Z. A., V, 417); Hilprecht, B. E., V, Nos. 35, 36, 39; I.e., V, 133 (see also Zimmern, Z. A., XIII, p. 304); Scheil, Textes Elam. Sim., I, p. 93, co1. I, 18. 4 One of the maxims in Babylonian history is that whenever a ruler or king terms himself and "the legitimate and " this or that, such a ruler is invariably an usurper. The truth of this maxim is clearly established also and "in Kuri-Galzu's case. One of his favorite titles is rCjaum kinum, and "the legitimate shepherd, and " see Hilprecht, B. E., I1, Nos. 41 + 46: 3 (cf. Hilprecht, I.e., p. 32, and Zimmern, Z. A., XIII, p. 304); I.e., V, 133: 5, 6 (Zimmern, I.e.). Also Kuri-Galzu's son, Nazi-Maruttash, claims this very same title, Hilprecht, B. E., I2, Nos. 75 + 136 + 137 (Zimmern, I.e., p. 302): 5. What Kuri-Galzu lacked in favor from his subjects he made up in empty assertions. policy on Kuri-Galzu's part not to c...