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78 THE CVNEIFOBM INSCRIPTIONS AND THE 0. T.
Khorsab. 49. 56, that he settled Armenian inhabitants
in Hamath.
388 XIII. 1 7. Medians, see note on Gen. X. 2 (p. 62, Vol. I).
19. Chaldaeans, see note on Gen. XI. 28 (pp. 114 foil.
Vol. I).
XIV. 8. ]i33? n_'lN-a''^'1ng Cypresses . . . cedars of
Lebanon. The Assyrians too mention both these species
of tree in conjunction as belonging to Lebanon (see
on 1 Kings V. 13, Vol. I, p. 172 foil.). In this
case we assume that the variety of Pine survan, sur-
vinu, which is also to be met with in Aramaic 13112^,
ij.A£)jaA< really meant the cypress. This is, however, by
no means certain. At all events we also find the name
of a tree bur^su employed by the Assyrians, corre-
sponding to the Hebrew 1^*11? ; see Keilinsch. u. Gesch.
pp. 194. 532. Salmanassar in his monolith II, 9 mentions
in conjunction (just as in the above passage) is irin and
is bur4§u as felled by him on the range of the Amanus.
The name for the cedar Irin evidently corresponds to the
Hebrew ]')ii. The latter, however, is in Hebrew the name
also for a variety of fir and does not denote the 'cedar',
while conversely the name 1"!)N employed in that language
does not occur in Assyrian *. Comp. also the notes on
Is. XLIV. 14.
* I would also observe that in the list of Asiatic mountains and
ranges, and the products which specially belong to them, II Rawl. 51,
No. 1 (comp. Delitzsch, Paradies p. 101), it is the Amanus (sad
Ha-ma-nu line 3) which is called sad i-ri-ni i. e. "cedar-mountain",
while in line 5 the Lebanon (sad Lab-na-nu, not Lib-na-nu!) is
characterized as sad is sur-man (see above). On the other hand in
line 10 an unknown mountain Ha-na is called sad burSsi (SIM
[or RIK] LI, Keilinsch. u. Gesch. p. 532) i. e. Cypress-range. On this
subject compare my essay on "Ladanum and Palm" in the Berlin.
Monatsber. 1881, p. 413 foil.