68 THEO. G. PINCHES : ON CERTAIN INSCRIPTIONS AND RECORDS 



oiiv t'aiicifully written name, therefore, a form corresponding 

 with the Biblical Chedorlaomer was suggested, for which 

 Kndur(lag)gumal gave, with little or no doubt, the first two 

 and the last two syllables — tliose corresponding to Chedor 

 and 'oine7\ For the remaining character the value of la or 

 lag is required. These values are indicated by the sylla- 

 baries and bilingual-lists, and will be given in full in the 

 notes. For the present we may simply say that the characters 

 ^JBy (the second component is slightly doubtful, but can 

 hardly be anything else than here indicated, as a parallel 

 passage shows) have the variant ^ "^C:!^ '^. pa-h-ih, show- 

 ing that the second character has the value of lih {lig), and 

 characters having that value (^ and i^^]]<) can also be read 

 lah and Ink (lag, Ing), as is shown in Briinnow's ''Classified 

 list." *Y§y, moreover, has the meaning of ellu, as has also the 

 character ^, one of whose values is, as already remarked, 

 lah (lag) — indeed, the value of lag for J^ seems to be clearly 

 indicated by W.A.I, TIL, pi. 3, lines 51 and 52. where, as 

 I have elsewhere pointed out, we must read i^]^]<, lag, 

 for t:|yy^. It is to be noted that Prof. Hommel's reading of 

 dug is a very suggestive <jne. "^f, as is well known, has 

 that value, as well as that of tug, and t and / interchange 

 in Akkadian, as shown by tflft J^TIT '<4'"*ftl' "^<^'<K ^'i^cl "^^ 

 Ciffyf idag, which are given as the Akkadian values of ^ >^]]]^ 

 (W.A.L v., pi. 38, lines '65 b and 61c). Here, then, are three 

 aguments for the values of lag, lig, and lug for *Tt|, besides 

 the intrinsic probability of the tablets themselves, for it is' in 

 the highest degree unlikely that tablets containing the 

 name of Tidal and others closely resembling Arioch and 

 Chedorlaomer, the last designated "king of Elam. " and "the 

 Elamite," should not, after all, refer to those personages. 



The name identified with Arioch is written ] j-^y >->|- S^f 

 y][ ]^. Eri-E-a-ku, and f >^| J^f JtJ y][, Eri-e-ku-a, the 

 latter form showing that the character to be restored in the 

 fii'st form is i^|. The question naturally arises whether, in 

 the form Eri-e-ku-a, the last two characters are not trans- 

 posed (J^ y][ for ]] ]^), as the final y]f does not seem to 

 belong to the word which follows, though that is certainly 

 possible. The equivalence of the above forms, y ^^vy ^*^ ^y 



