REFERRING TO BABYLONIA AND ELAM, ETC. 69 



Ty M '"^'^ T "^T ^! IhJ Tt' ^^ placed beyond doubt by the 

 fact tliat the son in both cases is f t^T^f '"'C^ii. "^HF" T''' 

 v;iri;uit y fc^L^>^ """C^i^ ""Ht" T""' Du7-mah-Uani (? or Dnr- 

 str-ildm). a name meanino^ " the great " (or " supreme ") 

 '• fortress of the gods."* The equivalence would not have 

 been absolutely provable otherwise. With regard to the 

 name Eri-Eaku, or Eri-ekua, an extremely important sug- 

 gestion Ijy Prof. Sayce is worthy of notice. In a communi- 

 cation that he has made to me upon the subject, he says : 

 "^y, J^a, must have been pronounced a in late Babylonian, 

 as is shown by the "Ao<? of Damascius." This is a suggestion 

 that would indicate that Eri-Aaku and Eri-akua are better 

 transcriptions than those indicated above, and probably 

 explains the variant of «->f- ]] ^f. A-e, for the name of 

 the well-known deity '->f- ^| f^f, E-u, or, as we should 

 probably transcribe in both cases, Aa = "A09. as mentioned 

 in the note of Prof. Sayce already referred to. 



Further Texts bearing on the above. 



The letters of Hammurabi discovered in the Museum of 

 Constauthiople by Father Scheil are three in number, and 

 are addressed by that ruler to a certain Sinidinna"'. to whom 

 he makes certain communications concerning the affairs of 

 his kingdom. The text referring to Chedorlaomer I reproduce 

 here after Father ScheiFs copy, which I venture to retran- 

 scribe into the Babylonian character. 



Text. 



m -At] H 



^^T ^t^] KK 3T^I 



* At first, influenced by its meaning, I regarded this as the name of a 

 city, but the text of S^. II., 987, when brought to bear upon S^. III., 2, 

 prechules the possibility of that. 



