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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 McClure, M. L., d. 1918
Subjects: Civilization, Ancient History, Ancient
Publisher: London : Grolier Society
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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native annalists, as handed down to us by Herodotus,credits Deiokes with a reign of fifty-three years, whichoccupied almost the whole of the first half of the seventhcentury, i.e. from 709 to 666, or from 700 to 647 b.c. The the Rawlinsons. Most recent historians, however, accept the story of thispersonage as true in its main facts ; some believe him to have been merelythe ancestor of the royal house which later on founded the united kingdomof the Medes. ^ Drawn by Paucher-Gudin, from Plandin and Coste. ^ Herodotus expressly attributes a reign of fifty-three years to hisDeiokes, and the total of a hundred and fifty years which we obtain byadding together the number of years assigned by him to the four Median 88 THE POWER OP ASSYRIA AT ITS ZENITH records of Nineveh mention a certain Dayaukku who wasgovernor of the Mannai, and an ally of the Assyrians inthe days of Sargon, and was afterwards deported with hisfamily to Hamath in 715; two years later reference is (WJHMH.1/. 1 •.f.m V f
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VIEW OP HAMAdAn and MOUKT ELVEIST) IN WINTEE. made to an expedition across the territory of Bit-Dayaukku,which is described as lying between EUipi and Karalla, kings (53 + 22 + 40 + 35) brings us back to 709-708, if we admit, as hedoes, that the year of the proclamation by Cyrus as King of Persia(559-558) was that in which Astyages was overthrown; we get 700-699 asthe date of Deiokes accession, if we separate the two facts, as the monumentscompel us to do, and reckon the hundred and fifty years of the Medianempire from the fall of Astyages in 550-549. 1 Drawn by Boudier, from a photograph by M. de Morgan. THE MEDES AND THEIR ORIGIN 89 thus corresponding to the modern province of Hamadan.It is quite within the bounds of possibihty that the Day-aukku who gave his name to this district was identicalwith the Deiokes of later writers.^ He was the officialancestor of a royal house, a fact proved by the way inwhich his conqueror uses the name to distinguish thecountry over which he had ruled

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