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Thus the Aramaeans had a territory of no great width, but 230 miles long between its north-western and its south-eastern extremities.
Tiglath-Pileser smote this region, as he tells us, "at one blow." First attacking and plundering the eastern or left bank of the river, he then crossed the stream in boats covered with skins, took and burned six cities on the right bank, and returned in safety with an immense plunder. The fifth and last campaign was against the country of Musr or Muzr, by which some Orientalists have understood Lower Egypt.
This, however, appears to be a mistake.
The Assyrian Inscriptions designate two countries by the name of Musr or Muzr, one of them being Egypt, and the other a portion of Upper Kurdistan.
The expedition of Tiglath-Pileser I., was against the eastern Musr, a highly mountainous country, consisting (apparently) of the outlying ranges of Zagros between the greater Zab and the Eastern Khabour.
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