A  son   of    Ginath,   and   the   unsuccessful


727  B.  c.  Tiglath-pileser  is  but  another  name
for  Pul,  as  appears  from  the  fact  that  where
Ptolemy's  list  of  Babylonian  kings  gives
Poros,  and  the  so-called  dynastic  tablets  of
the  Babylonians  give  Pulu,  the  Babylonian
chronicle  gives  Tiglath-pileser.  Probably  Pul
was  his  original  name,  and  when  he  secured
the  throne  he  assumed  the  grander  title  of
Tiglath-pileser,  which  had  already  been  made
famous  by  a  great  king  of  the  past.  There
is  reason  to  believe  that  he  owed  his  eleva
tion  to  the  throne  to  the  disturbances  in
Calah,  which  are  recorded  for  the  year  746  B.  c.
