... It is uncertain whether the last war with the Medes and final destruction of Nineveh fell into the reign of Asshur-emit-ili, the latest monarch of whom contemporary records have been found, or whether he had a successor in the Saracus of Berosus--the Sardanapalus of the Greeks, under whom the final catastrophe took place.  On the one hand, the number of years from the accession of Esar-haddon to the capture of Nineveh, which is but fifty-five, seems barely to suffice for the three reigns of a father, a son, and a grandson, whence we should conclude that Asshur-emit-ili was probably the last king.  On the other, the difference between the names of Saracus and Asshur-emit-ili is so wide, and the authority of Berosus (from whom the notices of Saracus seem to come) so great, that we are tempted to suspect that Asshur-emit-ili may have been the last king but one, and Saracus (perhaps his brother) have succeeded him. (The History of Herodotus, Rawlinson, v.1, 1862).