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Del. Assyr. Lesest. S""^ ed. and S. A. Smith, Keilschrifttexte Asurbanipals
Heft II p. 15. — 68 read ak§u-ud. — col. III. 3. for a-lib read a-lul 'I
hung {ov fastened) their corpses', Kal aorist.-Imperf. of al&lu to bind.
— 22. Prof. Schrader now follows Delitzsch in taking a-si-i as plur. of
the partic. tsn (root J^Jil) "whosoever came forth from his city-gate
I compelled to return" (see below the correction to Vol. II p. 156). —
34. Del. reads ni-sik-ti and renders 'precious stones'. Comp. II Eawl.
67. 26. 28 where it is called bi-nu-ut tam-tim 'product of the
sea'. Haupt suggests the rendering 'pearls' (comp. Schrader's rendering
in Vol. I, 227, 228 Notes and Illustrations). With this passage comp.
the Annals of Asurbanipal (cyl. R 1) col. II. 39 kaspu hurasu ni-
sik-ti abni sa-gu ikalli-Su ma-la ba-su-u 'silver, gold, precious
stones, the things of his palace as many as there were' (S. A. Smith,
Keilsch. Asurb. I p. 92).
p. 293 line 10 from below. A line has here dropped out. After the
word 'plural' a new sentence should begin. Read:— Sikriti 'palace
women'; in the text stands the ideogr. RAK. UN with plur. sign mean-
ing "female people" etc.
Vol. II p. 16 ad init. The 'Babylonian Chronicle', recently published
by Mr. Pinches in the 'Journal of the Royal Asiatic Soc. of Great
Britain and Ireland' Vol. XIX Part. IV, gives explicit information re-
specting the murder of Sennacherib, col. III. 34 foil, arah Tibiti