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NOTES AND ADDENDA. 301
ancient clay cylinder containing two columns of inscription of king Sin-
iddinam of Larsam (Ellasar). From this inscription the conclusion to
he drawn is, that of the three kings of Larsam which we now know
to have belonged to the same period, Nur-RammS,n ('Ramman is light')
was the father of Sin-id din am. We may also infer on other grounds
that Rim-Sin (Schrader :—Riv-Aku := Arioch) came after them and
was the last king of Larsam (Ellasar).
As to the pronunciation of the cuneiform sign for the last mentioned
king, Delitzsch is of opinion that the first sign cannot possibly be read
as Iri- or Eri-. On the other hand the reading Aku for the second
sign is quite possible since A-ku has been found on the monuments
as one of the names for the moon-god. We may therefore with good
reason read the name as Rim-Aku, or as the Babylonian pronounced
the name in later times Riv-Aku, Ri-Aku. This king may be iden-
tified therefore with ^^l^J^ king of TD'jJJ^. — Translator.]
Vol. 1, 121 1. 1. Read "Notes on the early history of Assyria and
Babylonia", London 1872 p. 10. 29.
Vol. I p. 153. In a letter to Prof. Schrader from Prof. W. Robertson
Smith dated June 2 1884 upon the Philistine proper names discussed
in the comment on Josh. XIIL 3, the writer says:— "Let us begin with
the name Sidka. The analogy which subsists between this and the
Hebrew forms ^Q^, ^'Q^ or i^^Q^, ^•2^^, ^"^ (^Tj;, ^J^iy), ^3^ etc. is
evident. These latter have been discussed by Derenbourg, Hist, de la
Pal. 95, 150 and by Wellhausen, Jahrb. fiir deutsche Theol. XX. 631.
But the termination in these abbreviations has no reference to the form
of the second half of the original name; for simUiar abbreviations are
also common in Phoenician, and occur in such a manner that it is quite
impossible to refer to the name '^^\'\^y\ by way of explanation. Thus
JO^D
D^J^D^D
i"^ Corp. Insc. Semit. I, 1, no. 52 cannot be separated from
no. 49, and we must come to a like conclusion with respect
to J^^n as compared with Hannibal etc. and with respect to Bodo
(i^"ID 01' J^IDJ? °o- 1*^)' ^VO"^ "^^^ 1^' i^nriD
etc. etc. If this be so,
we must form a similar opinion of the names with an I-termination.
We already find in Hebrew that endings oscillate between a and ay,
just as in Phoenician {^"l^y alternates with ^"l^j;, A^Saloq; and the
Assyrian transcription of p^^p appears to show that an original ay
may be represented by Assyr. i." Compare also Robertson Smith's
article 'Philistines' in the recent edition of the Encyclop. Britannica
and his note on a gem with the inscription J^^^i, Pal. Expl. Fund,
Qu. Stat. 1885 p. 131.
Vol. I p. 262 footn. *. Dr. Hugo Winckler has communicated to
Dr. Schrader the information that from a personal examination of
paper squeezes in Paris he has found that in the inscriptions of Sargon