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## Cimmerian fell upon Lydia in 652, and Gyges met his death in battle. ... When the Cimmerians swung away again to the east and approached the Assyrian frontier of Cilicia, they presented a danger of the first magnitude."1 Olmstead does not give his reasons why he chose this particular year for thus dating this event, but the date is probably based on a consideration of the various events in the reign of Ashurbanipal (668-633 B.C.) as narrated in the inscriptions of this king and in the Greek historians.2 We have only one edition of the "Annals" of Ashurbanipal from the early years of his reign, the so-called Edition E, which bears the date of 667 B.C.3 No mention is made here of either Gyges or the Cimmerians. After a silence of almost two decades, the next edition, Edition B of 649 B.C., speaks of the treaty of friendship between Gyges and Ashurbanipal, but not of the former's defeat at the hands of the Cimmerians.4 This is no proof, however, that Gyges had not been overthrown by the Cimmerians before 649 B.C.; for it is quite typical of the Assyrian royal inscriptions to pass over humiliating defeats in silence. The first account that is given of the Cimmerian victory over Gyge

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Author

Louis F. Hartman

Published

1962

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EN

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Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)