The Cuneiform inscriptions and the Old Testament; - The Search For ...

96 THE CUNEIFORM INSCRIPTIONS AND TEE 0. T.
22. ul^V often occurs in the inscriptions in the feminine
form riaratu*; see for example Tigl.-Pil. II (II Rawl. 67)
line 14 (mat I'lamti); the 'Elamite' is called I'lamU
(Sanherib Taylor-cyl. IV. 46, 70; V. 25). The definite
geographical meaning belonging to the territorial name may
be learnt from the Behistun inscription of Darius, in which
a Persian term U v a j a i. e. Susiana corresponds to the
Babylonian I'- lam -mat (Beh. 41. comp. NR. 11); see also
the remarks on Ezra IV. 9. The name Elam is assigned by
the Semitic Babylonians to the Susian highland and itself
signifies "highland", root ^bv. This is confirmed by the Akka-
dian expression for the same region, Numraa-Ki, meaning
also "highland" (A. H. Sayce) ; see the syllab. II Rawl. 2,
451 foil., V Rawl. 16, IB foil. a. b. The native name was
according to the Susian brick-inscriptions derived from the
112 capital Susan {= Susin or Susun of the Susian brick-
inscriptions) and was pronounced Susinak i. e. Susiana;
see on Ezra IV. 9. Compare also Oppert, les inscriptions
en lang. sus. (extrait des m(5moires du congr. internat. 1873)
pp.
1 79 foil. ; A.H. Sayce in Transactions of theSoc. of Bibl.
Archaeol. Ill pp. 468, 478; Th. Noldeke in N. G.G.V^^**
Apr. 1 pp. 173. Elam is by no means interchangeable
with or equivalent to Persia. We never meet with the
name "Persia" or "Persian" before the time of Cyrus, either
on an Assyrian or a Babylonian monument.***
* The latter stands as I'- lam-mat also in Beh. 41 (see Text).
Correction is to be made according to this in my Assyrisch-Babylouische
Keiliuschriften p. 346. (There also we must supply "Aegypt" instead
of "Armenia" in accordance with the Persian text.)
** = "Nachrichten von der Gottinger Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften."
*** To this we would add:— "and also not in any pre-exilic Biblical
extract." We are at once led back to the conclusion that a fragment,