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124 TEE CUNEIFORM INSCRIPTIONS AND TEE 0. T.
G6mer standing at the head of the list as being the most
distant people. But during the interval, i. e. in the period
which lies between the composition of the race-table and
the life of Ezekiel , the Gomer i. e. the Kimmerians
(Gimirrai) had broken into Asia Minor, had taken posses-
sion of Cappadocia, Tubal and Meshech and , we may
presume, had caused a disruption in Tdgarmah and
driven the people to the North or North -East. With
this occupation of Cappadocia by the Gdmer-Kimmerians
must be connected the later name for Cappadocia viz,
Gamir (P. deLagarde, collected Essays p. 254; Dill-
mann's Genesis 1882 p. 163).
XLV. 12. Twenty Shekels, twenty five shekels and fifteen
shekels shall be the mina among you. Ofcourse the prophet
does not here mean three different minas (Hitzig), but
without doubt fixes the standard of the entire mina at sixty
shekels i. e. at the old value of the imperial or royal mina.
See the note on Gen. XXIII, 16 (Vol. I, p. 127 foil.).
XLVII. 16. 18. pin Haurdn, an Aramaic region lying East
of Gilead and frequently referred-to in the Assyrian records,
in the form (mS,t) Ha-u-ra-a-ni, (Ir) Ha-u-ra-ni and
also (fr) Ha-u-ri-na. From the passage III Rawl. 5
no. 6 lines 55 foil, (cited in Vol. I, p. 200) it follows that
this region was a mountainous one, as we already know on
other grounds. See Keilinsch. u. Gesch. p. 115.
BOOK OF DANIEL.
1. 1. Nehukadnezzar. The original pronunciation of
the name was Nab^-kudurri-usur. See note on
2 Kings XXIV. 1, Vol. II, p. 4 7 foil.
429 4. Respecting '??"'n, Aram. '?^^"^ "palace" see 2 Kings
XX. 18, Vol. II, p. 39.