678 MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS. 



twelfth tablet of the Nimrod Epic; re-collated the whole of the poem; 

 gave a new translation of the first column of the Deluge tablet on the 

 basis of recently found fragments ; discussed the dimensions of the 

 Babylonian ark (=120 half cubits, 110 feet, for both the depth and 

 width, and 600 half cubits, 540 feet, for the length) ; and developed a 

 theory of the Assyrian prefix na. 



Morris Jastrow discussed the Assyrian word Midurii, which he con- 

 nected with the ring of the sun-god and the biblical and later Hebrew 

 Jcaddur; reviewed Parti of Delitzsch's Assyrian dictionary, offered trans- 

 lation of some passages in the monolith inscription of Shalmaneser II, 

 and described ancient Babylonian cemeteries. 



M. L. Kellner gave a new translation of the standard inscription of 

 Asuruazirpal, and compared and discussed the Babylonian and Old 

 Testament accounts of the Deluge. 



David G. Lyon showed the development of the Assyro-Babylonian 

 religious conceptions by a collection of the prayers ajjpended to the 

 royal inscriptions. He proved from a statistical study of the Pantheon 

 of Asurbanipal (668-62G b. c.) that this king mentions most frequently 

 Assur, the national god, and Istar, the goddess of war, and that he 

 exhibited a marked tendency to invoke a group of twelve deities, not 

 the same, however, which preside over the twelve months. He also 

 called attention to some parallels between the Assyrian inscriptions 

 and the Old Testament. 



S. H. McCollester described his trip from Bagdad to Babylon and 

 Mosul, the site of ancient Nineveh, with an account of the excavations, 

 explorations, and discoveries made there. 



J. A. Paine gave a discussion of the eclipse in the seventh year of 

 Cambyses, based on T. G. Pinches's paper, "An astronomical or astro- 

 logical tablet from Babylon" {Babylonian and Oriental Record^ August, 

 1888). This tablet is either the original or a copy of the text from 

 which Ptolemy (in the Almagest) derived his information of the fifth 

 eclipse which he enumerates (July 16, 523 b. c). In this text we 

 meet for the first time the Assyrian word irihu Hebrew idreah "moon." 



Theophilus G. Pinches, of the British Museum, contributed to the 

 New Yorh Independent an article entitled, "An old Babylonian letter," 

 being a translation and commentary on a tablet in the British Museum, 

 S+375. 



Zenaide A. Eagozin wrote a brief history of Media, Babylonia, and 

 Persia, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war. Especial attention 

 is given to the religion of the Parsees. 



A. H. Sayce described in the New York Independent the literary 

 correspondence between Asia and Egypt in the century before the 

 Exodus, being an account of some of the Tell-Amarna tablets. 



S. Alden Smith has carried on his studies in Assyrian letters, publish- 

 ing a number of new texts; described Assyrian report tablets and the 

 progress of Assyrian study, and criticized Delitzsch's Assyrian die- 

 tiouary. 



