This identification, however, is too uncertain to be assumed without further proof.

The probable date of Chushan-ris-athaim is some two (or three) centuries earlier; and his title, "king of Mesopotamia," is one which is not elsewhere applied to Assyrians monarchs.
A few details have come clown to us with respect to the Babylonian war of Asshur-ris-ilim.

It appears that Nebuchadnezzar was the assailant.

He began the war by a march up the Diyalch and an advance on Assyria along the outlying Zegros hills, the route afterwards taken by the great Persian road described by Herodotus.

Asshur-ris-ilim went out to meet him in person, engaged him in the mountain region, and repulsed his attack.