XXII KNUT TALLQVIST. 
OPe. hasiya), Saussatar! (Sau-ksatra, patron. of Ind. n. p. Su-ksatra, Av. huySapra), 
Subandi (Ind. n. p. Subandhu), Sata (cf. Ind. süta), Sut(fjarna (perhaps — su-tarana, 
SCHEFTELOWITZ), Sufatna (possibly — suta-tana “to whom offspring has been born”, or — suta- 
tana “son of a charioteer”, cf Ind. n. p. Sütatanaya), Zw()atta (cf. Ind. tuvis “strong, big", 
and rátha "chariot". On the other hand Zzrda-zuaida and Ma-varzana are Iranian, while 
Artamania and Arlatama can be both Aryan and Iranian and Arzaviia, Namzavaza, Mattivaza, 
Teuvatti, and others ought probably to be distinguished as Mitannian-Hittite. Considering that 
the majority of the names adduced have an obviously Indo-Aryan character, it seems to me 
that one might formulate the conclusion thus, that they represent a dialect closely allied to Aryan 
but partly in process of adopting the characteristics distinguishing Iranian, thus a proto- 
Iranian dialect. 
Purely Iranian names first appear some centuries later, in the inscriptions of the Assyrian 
kings, from the ninth century onwards. Shalmaneser III was the first Assyrian ruler who entered 
the land of Media. Among the chieftains against whom he fought on the western border of 
Media Artasari of Shurdira, Data of Khubushki and Up of Gilzan probably bore Iranian names. 
In the inscriptions of Shalmanesers successor Shamshi-Adad V we meet with the names 
Titamaska, Piriiati, Hanasiruka, Munsuartu, Zarisu, ParuSta, AspaStatauk, Mamanis, Bära, 
Dirnakus, Irtizati, Satiria, Artasirari, etc, most of which are undoubtedly Iranian. In Sargon’s 
account of the conquest of Media the Iranian names are most numerous. To Sargon's famous 
list of Median chiefs? we can now append a similar list from the account of Sargon's eighth 
campaign?, in 714 B. C. In business documents from the periods of the Neo-Assyrian and Neo- 
Babylonian kingdoms, Iranian names occur hardly at all On the other hand, they naturally 
appear in great quantities in Babylonian deeds and documents from the period of the Persian 
domination. To these sources of information regarding the occurrence of Iranian names in 
Semitic cuneiform texts are finally to be added the inscriptions of the Achæmenides. 
An exhaustive treatment of all the Iranian names in Semitic cuneiform characters would 
certainly be a very profitable task, which must, however, be reserved for an Iranian scholar. 
When, as a layman in Iranian, I attempted to identify and point out the Iranian names occurring 
in this work, I naturally started from the great Behistün inscription, seeing that the Iranian 
names occur there in a three-fold form: Early Persian, Semitic and Neo-Elamic. Besides, I have 
kept mainly to JUSTI, Iranisches Namenóuch?, but have also consulted ROST6, SCHEFTELOWITZ ?, 
HüsınG®, MEYER, BARTHOLOMAE ?, and others. 
I) The final portion of the name, 3a/ar, corresponds rather to x$apra than to ksatra and is thus Iranian, 
as Mr. KoNow rightly points out, l. c., p. 44. 
2) K. 1668 b. G. SMITH, Assyrian Discoveries, p. 288 f.; DELITZSCH, Die Sprache der Kossäer, 1884, p. 48 f.; 
H. WINCKLER, Die Keilschrifttexte Sargons, 1889, IL, pl. 44; Rost, in MVG, II, p. 111 f; STRECK, in ZA, XV (1900), 
p- 356 ff; SCHEFTELOWITZ, in KZ, 38, p. 274 ff.; E. MEYER, ibid., 42, p. 1 ff. 
3) THUREAU-DANGIN, Une relation de la huitième campagne de Sargon, Paris 1912. 
4) For the Babylonian version of the Behistun inscription, see III R 39—40. I have also used The Sculptures 
and Inscriptions of Darius the Great om the rock of Behistüm im Persia, a new collation of the Persian, Susian, and Baby- 
lonian texts, with English translations, etc, London 1907; F. H. WEISSBACH, Die Keilinschriften der Achämeniden, 
Leipzig 1911. 
5) F. Justı, Zranisches Namenbuch, Marburg 1895. This work is a great storehouse of facts, but often mis- 
leading; cf. HÜsING, KZ, 36, p. 556ff. 1 
6) PAUL Rost, Das sogenannte Mederreich und das Emporkommen der Perser, MVG, 1897, pp. 175—222. 
7) ISIDOR SCHEFTELOWITZ, Arisches im Alten Testament, I, Berlin 1901; Ergänzungen zu Fustis iranischen 
Namen, ZDMG, 57 (1903), pp. 165—167; in this essay the author takes into consideration only a small portion of the 
new cuneiform materials available in 1903; Die Sprache der Kossäer, KZ, 38 (1905), pp. 260—277. 
8) G. Hüsıng, Die iranischen Eigennamen der Achämenideninschriften, Norden 1897; Altiranische Mundarten, 
KZ, 36, p. 556 ff.; miscellanies. 9) CHRISTIAN BARTHOLOMAE, Altiranisches Wörterbuch, Strassburg 1904. 
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