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64 THE CUNEIFOBM INSCRIPTIONS AND TEE 0. T.
Behist. ; Naksh-i-Rustam) do we again find the record of a
m^t Ja-a-va-nu (Beh. 5) or Ja-va-nu in which the
82 king; as before, certainly does not mean Greece proper, but
rather the region inhabited by the Greeks in Asia Minor,
especially by the lonians : the Greeks of the European
continent never "obeyed" him. Comp. B, Stade, De Populo
Javan parergon. Giss. 1880 pp. 8 foil. This writer con-
cludes that from the similar use of the name "Ionian" in
the table of races and in the Persian inscriptions, i. e. in the
sense of "Grecian Asia Minor" (meaning by this term the
islands of Asia Minor), we may draw the inference that
the two literary productions closely approximated in time.
But this view can scarcely be harmonized with the use of
the name in the above sense as early as in the reign of
Sargon, i. e. more than 200 years previously.
75? Tubal, undoubtedly the Tabal of the inscriptions and
the Tibarenians of the Greeks and Latins. On the differ-
ence in vocalization see note p. 66. They are first men-
tioned in the reign of Salmanassar II (860— 825) who
in his obelisk inscription speaks of 24 Tabalaean princes
who paid him tribute. We read in this inscription 104:
Ina XXII. palt-ja XXI saniti n^r Bu-rat 105.
i-bir a-namatTa-ba-li at-ta-rad. Ina li-ml-suma
sa XXIV 106. sarra-ni sa xnki Ta-ba-li i-gisi-su-nu
am-tah-har i.e. "In the 22°*^ year of my
reign I crossed the Euphrates for the 2P* time and de-
scended to the land of Tabal. In those days it came to pass,
that I received the gifts of 24 kings of the land of Tabal";
comp. 109 foil. : sarr§,-ni sa m§,t Ta-ba-li illi-ku-ni
ma-da-ta-su-nu am-hur i. e. "the kings of the land
of Tabal came, their tribute I received". In the tribute lists
of Tiglath-Piieserll (Layard 50; li Kawl. 67 ;
III Rawl. 9j