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118 THE CUNEIFORM INSCRIPTIONS AND THE 0. T.
river" i. e. of the Persian gulf (Oppert). Respecting the
last phrase see mj essay *The names for seas in the
Assyrian inscriptions", Berlin 1877 (8) p. 176, as well as
Botta pi. 7 (bis), 55 and parall. Comp. also the note on
Ezek. XXIII. 23.
LI. 1. '•Oj? 3^ = Dnit'D according to the Athbash-
alphabet, just as "^VJ =. ^23. See the note on chap.
XXV. 26.
23. O^JJD") mno. Comp. notes on 1 Kings X. 15
(Vol. I, pp. 175. 6) and Is. XLI. 25.
27. I0'^^^« nlD^PD "kingdoms of Ararat". See above
Vol. I, p. 53 and Vol. II, p. 16.
— ^^p "Minnaean".—Comp. the Mivvaq of Nicol. Damasc.
quoted in Josephus Antiqq. I, 3. 6.— undoubtedly the
424 Mann ai (M a n-n a-a i , Ma-an-na-ai) of Salmanassar II
(Obelisk 165 comp. 168); of Sargon, Khorsab. 36 etc.;
also of Asarhaddon and Asurbanipal (Norris, Gelzer).
Perhaps the tribe may also be identified with the in-
habitants of the land Mun (m§,t Mu-un-na) mentioned
by Ramm§,nnirS.r I Rawl. 35. 8. Comp. Keilinsch. u.
Gesch. pp. 174. 212. 520.
"IDDI? scribe is the Babylono - Assyrian dup-sar-ru
Syll. 370 of which the abstract is dup-sar-ru -ti
II Rawl. 27, 27 e (respecting the sibilant comp. Ill Rawl.
70, 78). We likewise find the form dip-sar II Rawl. 48,
38 a (Haupt in Transactions of the Berlin Oriental Con-
gress I, 2 77). The retention of the sibilant s in the form
of the Hebr. D is the only correct orthography in the case
of a word that was originally Babylonian. Whether the
Assyrians pronounced the word dupsarru or dupsarru*
* The connection of the Akkado- Assyrian dupsar, dupsarru