According to one Assyrian inscription, the Cimmerians ("Gimirru") originally went forth from their homeland of "Gamir" or "Uishdish" on the shores of the Black Sea in "the midst of Mannai" around this time. The Cimmerians first appear in the annals in the year 714 BCE, when they apparently helped the Assyrians to defeat Urartu. Urartu chose to submit to the Assyrians, and together the two defeated the Cimmerians and thus kept them out of the Fertile Crescent. At any rate, the Cimmerians had again rebelled against Sargon by 705 BCE, and he was killed whilst driving them out. By 679 BCE they had instead migrated to the east and west of Mannae.