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NOTES AND ADDENDA. 295
other hand it must be recollected that the sign ha, which Hal^vy
reads as nun, never has the meaning "lord", Assyr. rubfl. Indeed as
an ideogram its proper signification can only be "fish" Assyr. nunu. But
this Assyrian word nQnu has nothing whatever to do with the Akkadian
NUN meaning "lord." Moreover it is no longer possible to interpret arba
as signifying 'four' on account of the variant Ar-rap-ha Sennacherib,
Taylor-cylind. col. II. 3; Tigl.-Pileser II (II Rawl. 67) line 14 (in this
last passage with the determinative mat "land", in other cases, as in
the Taylor-cylind., cited above, with the determ. ir "town". The final
a of arba, protected by Ain, (standing for, as well as in conjunction
with, arba') = y^^J^ cannot, as would be the case with Ar-rap-ha,
completely vanish without leaving a trace of its existence; for the 612
final o in Arba-ilu even maintains itself before a following vowel (i),
without blending with the latter into a diphthong. In fact in the ri
of the Greek {xa) "AQi3i]Xa we discern a trace of the final a-vowel in
the first part of the name.
Dli^
Vol. I p. 100 footn.
***. — The other name for Mesopotamia ir^Q
(Gen. XXVIII. 2, XXXI. 18 etc.) occurring in the document of
the Annalistic narrator [Priestercodex] is combined in its first portion
i. e. ]TjQ by Moritz (and Delitzsch?) with the Assyrian padanu which
is explained in II Rawl. 62, 33 a. b. by the ordinary ideogram for iklu
b'\)r\
"/eZd" and ginu n '^garden''' (III Rawl. 70, 96 foil.) and accord-
ingly has a similar meaning and well adapted to the Hebr. Q'^J^ XID- 1°
order to determine the actual original signification of the Assyrian word,
observe that it is explained on the one hand in IV Rawl. 69 1, 6 foil, by
the ideogram for the conception cleave, divide "){3Q, and on the other
in II Rawl. 38, 28 c. d. by the ideogr. for "foot'' NIR (GIR), whereas
a statement in a syllabary (unfortunately mutilated), which immediately
follows, explains an Akkadian word (NIR?) gal-la (see also syllabary
667 in Haupt) by kibsu, "treading", comp. Hebr. \i;'23, K'DD' ^^^
daraggu meaning perhaps ascent, compare — .0 (the word is synonym
of urhu = n"li ^^^ mitiku = pn^lD
II Rawl. 38, 24— 27 c. d, comp. also durgu path Tigl.-Pileser I col. II'
86 and elsewhere.)
Vol. II p. 195, B. C. 337. — The ancient Persian form of the name 618
"igorig which has not yet been discovered in the Inscriptions must
have been pronounced Ar§a and is to be regarded as the second element
in the name KhsajarSa = Xerxes.