Introduction. 
By “Assyrian Personal Names", I understand those personal names which occur in 
cuneiform inscriptions of Assyrian origin from the age of the Patesis until the fall of the Assy- 
rian kingdom (c. 2200—606 B. C). But the work also contains many names from non-Assyrian 
sources. For I have included all names mentioned in RAWLINSON's Cuneiform Inscriptions of 
Western Asia, except such New Babylonian names as are to be found in my Neubabylonisches 
Namenbuch. A number of personal names from Old Babylonian texts have thus been intro- 
duced, as also the names in the Babylonian version of the great Behistun Inscription. I have 
furthermore completely excerpted HARPER’s Assyrian and Babyloniam Letters, the Tell el 
Amarna letters! according to KNUDTZON's transcribed edition, the Ta'annek texts, the inscrip- 
tions of the Babylonian kings beginning with the 3:24 dynasty, especially all £udurrz-inscriptions ?, 
the most important chronological sources (King-list A and B, Chron. A, B, K!-*, P), as also all 
Cappadocian tablets? and Boghazköi texts! within my reach. I also intended to include all the 
names of the Vannic or Khaldian inscriptions, a certain number of which are to be found in 
inscriptions of the Assyrian kings; but in spite of all my endeavours I did not succeed in laying 
hands on Professor SAYCE's book The cuneiform inscriptions of Van, and have therefore had 
to be contented with excerpting miscellaneous Khaldian inscriptions scattered in different 
publications. 
The bulk of the c. 5500 names given in List I consists of purely Assyrian names. But 
the contingent of non-Assyrian (resp. non-Babylonian), West Semitic, and non-Semitic names is 
very large, which is partly due to the above mentioned choice of sources, partly to the fact 
that the numerous inscriptions of the Assyrian kings contain more foreign than Assyrian names. 
The non-Assyrian (resp. non-Babylonian) names in List I, and the abundant foreign name- 
elements in List II, 3 are indicated by a * before the name or the name-element. It is quite 
possible, however, that in some cases this sign has been erroneously put before names which 
in reality are Assyrian, and that in other cases it has been left out before non-Assyrian names. 
For it is often very difficult to decide with certainty whether a name is Assyrian or foreign, 
especially as the Assyrians in rendering foreign names were apt to make them as “mundgerecht” 
I).A complete list of the names in the Tell el Amarna letters was not to be had at the time I set about 
my work. 
2) For the names in the Babylonian kudurru-inscriptions, cf. the excellent works of WM. J. HINKE, A new 
boundary stone of Nebuchadrezzar I. from Nippur, Philadelphia 1907, and L. W. KiNG, Pabylonian boundary-stones and 
memorial tablets im the British Museum, with an Atlas of Plates, London 1912. 
3) Cf. sub Capp. in “Abbreviations”. 
4) Cf. H. WINCKLER, Die im Sommer 1906 in Kleinasien ausgeführten Ausgrabungen, in OLZ, 9 (1906), coll. 
611—634; Vorläufige Nachrichten über die Ausgrabungen in Boghazköi im Sommer 1907, in MDOG, 35 (1907); Die Arier 
in den Urkunden von Boghaz-köi, in OLZ, 13 (1910), coll. 289—301. 
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