XXVI KNUT TALLQVIST. 
Our knowledge of the name-formation among the Cassites also is still very incomplete. 
It is rendered the more difficult by the fact that we have no original texts in the language of the 
Cassites and that Cassite names have come to us only in a more or less semiticized form. That 
the Assyrian translations of Cassite names in the tablet K. 4426 (see II R 65, No. 2; V R 44) and 
the famous Cassitic-Assyrian glossary!, the original text of which has unfortunately never been 
published, are not reliable, indeed are quite misleading, has been shown convincingly by HUsING ?. 
In its main features the name-formation among the Cassites corresponds with that of the Ela- 
mites, as is only natural, considering that the languages of the Cassites and the Elamites 
were related ?. 
A large number of Cassite names occur in the documents from the temple archives of 
Nippur, dated in the reigns of Cassite rulers!. The personal names occurring in these and in 
various unpublished texts were collected by Professor CLAY in his useful book Personal names 
from Cuneiform Inscriptions of Cassite Period, New Haven 1912. He added to his merits by 
giving (pp. 36—41) a summary of the elements occurring in the names. He moreover demon- 
strates by several examples that the Cassite and Mitannite-Hittite names have many elements 
in common?, and emphasizes the necessity of investigating "whether there is not linguistically 
some connection between the people". As a matter of fact, this question has already been 
answered in the affirmative, in so far as those students are right, who, like HOMMEL, BORK and 
others, have maintained the relationship of Cassite to Elamite and of Elamite to Mitannite. Many 
lexical and grammatical similarities which appear in the name-formation of the languages in 
question, are pointed out in this work also. 
It still remains for us to refer to the numerous Hittite-Mitannian names in this work. 
Names belonging to this group occur, as is well known, first in early Babylonian texts, and are 
very frequent in Babylonian documents from the Cassite period, especially in those from Nippur; 
they occur also in ancient Assyrian documents from Asshur and Kerkuk, east of the Tigris, in 
the Tell elAmarna letters, in the cuneiform inscriptions discovered at Ta‘annek (Taanach), in 
the Hatti documents from Boghazkói, in the so-called Cappadocian tablets, in the Assyrian kings' 
inscriptions and in Assyrian business documents. To these cuneiform sources must be added 
the Egyptian inscriptions and the Hittites own documents in hieroglyphs. The former I have 
taken into consideration, but not the latter, since their decipherment still appears to be uncertain. 
To interpret names, regarded as Hittite-Mitannian, it would naturally be of the utmost 
importance to understand the language or languages spoken by Hittites and Mitannians. But 
up to the present our knowledge of this subject is very defective. Mitannian is better known 
1) F. Deritzsch, Die Sprache der Kossäer, Leipzig 1884, p. 25 f. 
2) Memnon, IV, p. 22ff. 
3) ScuEFTELOWITZ's attempt in Die Sprache der Kossäer, KZ, 38, p.260ff, to prove the Indo-European, 
especially Aryan character of the Cassite language, represents a point of view since abandoned. There is more to be 
said for the opinion of HOMMEL (in Zithiter und Skythen) partly supported by BLOOMFIELD (On some alleged Indo- 
European languages) and DHORME (Les Aryens avant Cyrus, in Conférences de Saint-Etienne, 1910— 1911; cf. BORK, OLZ, 
14 (1911), col. 472 ff.), namely, that there was among the Cassites, as among the Mitannites, an Aryan overlordship, 
and that some of the Cassites names for gods and kings were Aryan. But many of the similarities of language suggested 
by those scholars are extremely problematical. The identification of Surias with Skr. surya, however, is possibly correct; 
cf. MEYER, KZ, 42, p. 26. 
4) A. T. CLAY, Documents from the Temple Archives of Nippur, Philadelphia, 1906, 1912 (BE XIV, XV; 
UMBS II, 2). Huco Rapau, Letters to Cassite Kings from the Temple Archives of Nippur, Philadelphia, 1908 (BE XVII). 
5) Some of the names adduced by CLAY (p. 44 f.) ought, indeed, to be taken differently from his interpretation. 
A-kal-Sar is probably to be read A-ri6-ÿar; instead of A-ri-la-lum read A-dal-la-lum, from the Semitic base 554; Za-aj- 
zi-ba-da may be Canaanite and not Cassite; for Has-me-Tesup read Sil-me-Tesup (cf. Si-il-me); Me-Tesup is not found 
in CLav's list of names, but 7Ze-Z'wrgw, and so forth. 
T. XLIII. 
