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3. Ensagkusanna; two vase inscriptions.
§ 13. The Semi tic dynas ty oí Agade '.
l.' Sarganisarri; two door-socket inscriptions, one brick stamp, an
inscribed coat oí arms and several seals, chiefly írom Nippur.
[SAK. 162-5].
2. Naram-Sin; two steles and two inscribed statues (found at Susa),
two dedicatory inscriptions on vases, brick stamp (Nippur), one slate
plaque and one diorite plaque (dedicated to his son) írom Lagash;
several seal impressions all on tablets from Lagash. [SAK. 164-9]'.
To this period TH.-DANGIN assigns about 100 tablets from Lagash,
RTe., pp. 44-72'. Oí these the following are dated in the reign oí
Sarganisarri; 85 + 124, 87, 88 (?), 99 + 136 +176, 118. N aram-Sin ;
86 + 106 + 144.
Three Semitic documents, Bu. 91-fí-9, 588-90 [eT. 1., pl. 1], one
mentioning Sippar, are possibly from this period 4. The commercial
documents írequently contain Semiticisms, and a large number oí the
proper names are Semitic. DHORME,Les noms propr'es babyloniens á
l'époque de Sargon l'ancien et de NaNJm-Sin, BA.VI, has greatly exag­
gerated the Semi tic element at Lagash in this periodo The texts prove,
however, that the inhabitants oí Sumer were already a mixed race".
1. In the inseriptions of Manistusu, Sargon and Naram-Sin, al:ways a-ga-déki,
but from the period of Ur-engur of Ur generally ki-uri, also UI'i simply
(v. SAK. 190 e, 1. 4). CL also the form in a date formula of Hammurabi, HIL­
PRECHT BEP" Series D vol. V, 3 n. 2, ki-uri(I'iJ. The Semites translated ki-uri and
uri-(ki) by Akkadü, so that the two name, certainly indicate the same place. uri
(with the pronunciation tilla (!) so sb) meant also Urartu> Urtu (v. SAL 5329 and
K 621,4; Rm, n, 2,5, in ZA. VIIr, 345), and even Amoria 01' the West, Agade
at any rate was the name first employed by the Semites and seems to be much
older than ki-uri, a name of apparently northern origino
2. These inscriptions writtcn by royal scribes are all Semitic although the
population 01 Lagash and Nippur was stilllargely Sumerian, as we know from the
language of the commercial documents written at Lagash in the reigns of these
kings.
3. ather unpublished tablets of this period at Constantinople.
4. el. the form of the sign nag';!r REC. 323 on Bu. 91-5-9, 588 obv. 2, and 590,
rey. 2, with REC. 93,rev. 2,
5. The texts enumerated under §§ 10 and 13 have not yet received the atten-
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Agade.