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7200 horses and mares.’ It can mean nothing else. The 
name consists of the same determinative sign as before, fol- 
lowed by characters which I read susim, or susiw. ‘The read- 
ing of the last syllable is uncertain ; but I connect the word 
with the Egyptian sesem, which agrees both in its signification 
and in its radical letters. The relation of the word to the 
Hebrew 01D, sis, appears to me doubtful, though an attempt 
has been made to connect them. The last radical of the Assy- 
rian and Egyptian words is wanting in the Hebrew; the latter 
language does not assign to sis a feminine signification ; and 
I am by no means certain that the Hebrew Samekh is ever 
represented by the Assyrian s. 
‘In two passages on Bellino’s cylinder, we have four ani- 
mals in sequence, the first, second, and fourth of which are 
the horse, the mare, and the camel: all whose names are pre- 
ceded by the determinative already spoken of; while the 
third is represented by this determinative alone. In the pas- 
sage in the sixteenth line, where 7200 horses and mares are 
said to have been taken, 11,112 of this third animal and 5230 
camels were taken. I cannot think of any animal but the ass, 
which this ideograph can represent. This was the beast of 
burden first used, and, therefore, likely to have been symboli- 
cally represented, and to have had its symbol prefixed to the 
names of other beasts of burden; and it could scarcely have 
been omitted from a list of captured animals, which, however, 
it would have been if this ideograph did not express it. I re- 
gard the value of the character as denoting ‘ an ass’ nearly 
certain ; but I am uncertain how it was pronounced. A fourth 
word, to which this character is prefixed as a determinative, 
occurs in an inscription of Tiglath-pileser II., the contempo- 
_ rary of Menahem and Rezin (B. M. 68. 2). The word is ana- 
_ gatin, which occurs in the second Targum of Esther, i. 2, with 
the meaning, ‘she camels.’ There can be no doubt that this 
is the meaning here, as the determinative of females precedes 
that of beasts of burden, and as the word habba, ‘ camels,’ 
