Assyrian Personal Names. XIX 
= Sa-u-li, Yvvat = 2Sa-me-ri-na, etinm = 2Ur-sa-li-im-ma, Nörd =" Pa-la-as-tu, Pi-lis-ti, and 
so forth. In the Babylonian writing it corresponds to $, e. g. 5% — Sa-ma-, Tummek-Ya-ma-, 
By — Sa-ba-ab-ta-ni BE X, sad — Si-kin-El BE X, wwe — Shå-bu-nu-ia-ma (cf. Så-ub- 
na-ilu RPN), tra = "#X7-4-ÿ4 (Ass. Kzsu). In the Amarna letters the Canaanite t is preserved 
as $; thus we find JpPER — ?Ai-ga-/u-ua, mnt» — ? At-tar-te, v3" = Ua-bi-fi, Wi = "La- 
Ri-Y4 328,5, 329, 5, DD = #Sakmi, vd = 1Sg-am-hu-na, Tos = Sg-ru-na, ENG — 2$4-na- 
ma, and so forth. Exceptions are found only in the letters of the Hittite Abdi-Hepa: tz25 = 
4La-bi-si (287,15. 288,43), and m5 = 8 Ü- p u-sa-lim (287, 25. 280, 14. 290, 15), and sun = Bil- 
sa-a-ni (289, 20). 
The West Semitic laryngals ÿ and 7 are in cuneiform writing of all periods sometimes 
represented by Z, e.g. E» ham(m)u in OBa. Hammurafi; gnat = A-bi-e-Si-uk; in the Amarna 
texts "May — Hamu-niri, "29 = Janhamu, "373995 — Japah-Addu, "7592 perhaps = Ba lu- 
me-(hi)-ir, 523 = bahlu in Pu-ba-ah-la, etc.; 37% — NBa. za(-a)-da-ah, ia(-a)-di-ih, "va? = Ass. 
ar; Ass. Adad-ra-ha-a-u, Ad-ri-a-ha-u, and Si -ra-hi-i probably contain the element *»»*. As 
for the rendering of 5 — 4, cf. 717 = hadda in TA Rr-ib-ha-ad-da, 3m = NBa. zahabi, Yi = 
NBa. @/a-a-hu-u, MN — NBa. 7-/a-/i-i. 
Assyrian & is represented in West Semitic writing by 3 in Bi. 7170 < Sarrukın, "oNSpnbyn 
< Tuklat-apil-EXarra, and Ar. bana < Man-kr-Arbail. This change of the sound is pro- 
bably due to the influence of the neighbouring liquid. 
A considerable number of Egyptian names are found, besides in New Babylonian texts, 
also in the Amarna letters, the Boghazköi texts, and the Assyrian sources of the 8!" and 7'^ cen- 
tury. In explaining these I have principally followed STEINDORFF and RANKE? Some of the 
names which RANKE gives as possibly Egyptian, as Dasarti, Habaia, IrSappa, Kar-me-u-ni, Li- 
e-ta, Pirizzi, etc. are more likely Hittite; cf. List II, 3. 
Of Greek names in cuneiform characters only a few are known. In the Tell el Amarna 
letter, no. 37, from Alasia (Cyprus), four names appear, of which Ku-ni-e-a reminds one of the 
Greek Kvvgac, but also of the Lycian Kunniiéi; E-til-lu-na (cf. the Greek Eb5ve2wv, Eddai- 
Awv) and Pa-di-tum-me-e (cf. Tlactoc, Cret. xaccac "lord") are possibly Greek, while US-bar-ra 
(cf. Pis. OcBapa, Ooßapac) probably represents the language of the island's pre-Hellenic Hittite 
population from Asia Minor?. The first names which can unhesitatingly be set down as Greek 
occur in the inscriptions of Esarhaddon and Asshurbanipal, some 700 years later. These names 
which also are derived from Cyprus are Da-ma-su (A«pacoc), Da-mu-u-su, E-ki-iS-tu-ra (Axeccop), 
E-ri-e-su (Epecoc), Gir-me-su (‘Eppnc?), F-tu-u-an-da-ar (ExeFavópoc), Ki-i-su (cf. kewoc, xwcoc 
"ivy") Pi-la-a-gu-ra (Birayopac), and Ü-za-sa-gu-sa, the first part of which is obviously ovac-. 
Greek, also, is perhaps the name Za-du-gi-i (A«60yoc?, cf. the name of Seleucus II's wife Zz- 
da-ki-i = Noodwn), which was borne by an Assyrian slave sold B. C. 676. The other Greek 
names occurring in cuneiform inscriptions are from the time of the Arsacids and Seleucids*. 
In the Tell el Armana letters a number of names occur which have been looked upon 
as |ranian or Aryan. Mr. BEZOLD and Mr. BUDGE, who published the tablets in the British Museum 
first compared some of those names with Persian names in the Behistün inscription? Five years 
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I) Cf. BROCKELMANN, p. 153. 
2) G. STEINDORFF, Die keilschriftliche Wiedergabe ägyptischer Eigennamen, 1890 (Beiträge zur Assyriologie, Vol. I, 
pp. 330—361, 593—612); H. RANKE, Äezlschriftliches Material zur altägyptischen Vokalisation, Berlin 1910. 
3) Cf. HOMMEL, Grundriss, p. 62. 
4) Cf. A. T. CLAY's collection in Babylonian Records im the library of I. Pierpont Morgan, Part II, Legal Docu- 
ments from Erech, dated in the Seleucid Era (312—65 B. C.), New York 1913, p. 16 ff. 
5) The Tell el-Amarna Tablets in the British Museum, London, 1892, pp. 144, 146. 
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