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72 TEE CUNEIFORM INSCRIPTIONS AND THE 0. T.
forthcoming; moreover it has been ascertained that other
names were employed for "garden" and "wood" in As-
syrian. Hence, despite all objections, the theory of a
Perso-Indogermanic origin of the word D1"]Q and its con-
nection with the Zend pairidaeza appears to me still to
possess the greatest probability.
10. I0p5?p unquestionably a name of Assyrio - Baby-
lonian origin. It corresponds to the Assyrian Sin-ballit
i. e. "Sin bestowed life". The form ballit is abbreviated
from u ball it (3 pers. Imperf. Pael). This is worthy of
notice on account of the Hebrew punctuation with non-
dagheshed 2, and also because of the Greek reproduction
of the name ^ava^aXXdr, ^ava^alltrrjq. We have in
Assyrian another analogous name: Nabli-bal-lit-an-ni
"Nebo bestowed on me life" (II Rawl. 64 col. I, 30). See
Assyrisch-Babylon. Keilinsch. p. 131.
BOOK OF ISAIAH.
I. 1. In the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah
kings of Jucla. Respecting the total duration of time
represented by these reigns, see my comments on 2 Kings
XV, 17 in Vol. I, pp. 215 foil.
383 VI. 1. sitting on a high and exalted throne. Exactly
the same phrase is used of Sanherib "(Sanherib) set him-
self on an exalted throne" (see above Vol. I, p. 280).
N53 has no derivation in the Semitic languages, and in these
is a foreign word like the Graeco - Latin t h r o n u s in
German and English. It is the ancient Babylonian, non-
Semitic (is) gu-za (P. Haupt), which came into the
Babylono-Assyrian in the form kussti. The Akkadian z
passes into the Semitic s, as in the Assyrian absti from