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120 THE CUNEIFOBM INSCRIPTIONS AND THE 0. T.
no longer in a position to point out a river or canal of
that name in this region.
VIII. 14. Tisn lammuz is written on the Babylonian
inscriptions, as the name of a month, in the form D u - u - z i
and Du-'-u-zi (Haupt, Akkadische und Sumerische Keil-
schrifttexte I, 44) , a Babylono - Assyrian deity of non-
Semitic origin. The name Dti-zi signifies in Akkadian
**son of life". The original form of the word was, according
to the syllabary V Rawl. 23, 21 c. d., Dumuzi,
which comes much closer to the Western Semitic tlDH.
Respecting the legend of Tammtiz-Adonis, see F. Lenor-
mant in M^moires du Congr. intern, des Oriental. Paris
1873. II, No. 11; comp. also P. Jensen in Zeitschr. f.
Assyr. I (1886), p. 17 foil.
XXIII. 6. 23. D^JJpi nlriB provincial governors and
viceroys. On this subject see the notes on 1 Kings X. 15
(Vol. I, p. 175 foil.). Is. XLI, 25 (Vol. II, p. 103).
23. Tlie sons of Babel and all the Chaldaeans, Pekod and
Shoa^ and K6a\ all the sons of Assur with them etc. Re-
specting Tip? = Puklidu, see the note on Jerem. L. 21.
Accordingly ^'S^ and 4^1p may likewise be race-names, and
Delitzsch would be justified in identifying them with the
Kutti (Gutium), who dwelt in the upper region of Adhem
and DijS,lS,, and with the Sutii (Assyr.) who are constantly
associated with them. The form Kutt would become
abbreviated to Kti (= Jt/lp) and Sutti to Sti (VP = ylti^)*.
[* On the names Gutii and Suta Delitzsch (Parad. pp. 233 foil.)
cites a large number of illustrative cuneiform notices. From these he
draws the inference :— "that the region of the land Sutft (including
that of Sumastu and Jatbur) was the steppe that extended Eastwards
from the river Diji,M towards Elam and the river Kerkha, from the
Tigris as far as the Southern declivities of the Medo-Elamite moun-
tains"; see Cheyne on Isaiah XXII. 5 foil. It is also evident that the