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.  Notwithstanding its natural strength and the resistance of the inhabitants, this country was completely overrun in an incredibly short space.  The armies which defended it were defeated, the cities burnt, the strongholds taken.  Arin, the capital, submitted, and was spared, after which a set tribute was imposed on the entire region, the amount of which is not mentioned.  The Assyrian arms were then turned against a neighboring district, the country of the Comani.  The Comani, though Assyrian subjects, had lent assistance to the people of Musr, and it was to punish this insolence that Tiglath-Pileser resolved to invade their territory.  Having defeated their main army, consisting of 20,000 men, he proceeded to the attack of the various castles and towns, some of which were stormed, while others surrendered at discretion.  In both eases alike the fortifications were broken down and destroyed, the cities which surrendered being spared, while those taken by storm were burnt with fire.  Ere long the whole of the “far-spreading country of the Comani” was reduced to subjection, and a tribute was imposed exceeding that which had previously been required from the people.

After this account of the fifth campaign, the whole result of the wars is thus briefly summed up:—­“There fell into my hands altogether, between the commencement of my reign and my fifth year, forty-two countries with their kings, from the banks of the river Zab to the banks of the river Euphrates, the country of the Rhatti, and the upper ocean of the setting sun.  I brought them under one government; I took hostages from them; and I imposed on them tribute and offerings.”

From describing his military achievements, the monarch turns to an account of his exploits in the chase.  In the country of the Hittites he boasts that he had slain “four wild bulls, strong and fierce,” with his arrows; while in the neighborhood of Harran, on the banks of the river Khabour, he had killed ten large wild buffaloes (?), and taken four alive.  These captured animals he had carried with him on his return to Asshur, his capital city, together with the horns and skins of the slain beasts.  The lions which he had destroyed in his various journeys he estimates at 920.  All these successes he ascribes to the powerful protection of Nin and Nergal.