72 THEO. G. PINCHES : ON CERTAIN INSCHIITIONS AND RECORDS 



rf? >^ 4 H A-^* nia-da Yu-nm-iit-ba-lu"' 



^l 4i^ --Til HT ^^ l^V2;-^ila Ri-im-Agu 



^^t] ^y^U Su-ni sa-iie-du. 



MontJi Sebat, daii 2'drd, 

 Year Hammurabi the king 

 the land of Yanmtbdlu 

 utid king Rim-Agu 

 his hand captxired. 



Judging from S''. III., 2, and S''. IL, 987 (sec above, 

 pp. 4-14), Dur- sir-ilani, son of Avioch, took part in certain 

 political events, and even seems (p. 14) to have laid claim 

 to the throne of Babjdon. The history of that period Avill 

 only be known, however, after the records here printed are 

 completed by further discoveries in Babylonia, and possibly, 

 in Assyria as well 4 



Notes to S". Ill, 2 (pp. 46 ff). 

 Obverse. 



4. Prof. Hommel here restores the name Hammurabi, 

 as does likewise Prof. Sayce, who completes also at the 

 beginning \ina tar-'] su, making this part read " [In the] 

 time of IIammii[rabi]," "whose praises," he adds, "are sung 

 in the following lines." 



<S. Zandnu, from which zanin comes, mean •• to rain." and 

 " to nourish," or " be patron of," as in the expression 2ra?im 



* Tlie envelope here adds ^^\, the deteruiiuative sutHx indicating a 

 place-name. 



t The envelope has '^ J^ ^ ^^^^f ^^ »^T^^y' ^*<-'*''' sa-ne- 

 m-du. The root of the Akkadian verb is J[fc| ^Tcf sa-duga, which is 

 translated in W.A.I. II. , pi. 15, 1. 46«, by a form of the word kasCidu, 

 " to capture." 



X Another text regarded as referring to Rim-Agu is that published in 

 W.A.I, iv ., 2)1. 35, No. 8, in which the name is spelled >^<y -<^»ff >->f- 

 y^ \ £:^y Ri-im-D.P. A-gam-um or Rim-Agau>". Prof. Hommel, at 

 the Orientalist Congress lately held in Paris (1897), suggests, however, tliat 

 \ is 230ssibly a mistake for "jA, mi, and that the whole is to be read liini- 

 Ami'", the name of a king of Lai-sa recently found on tablets from 

 Senkarah. Whether Rim-Agu'" and Rim-Anu'" be the same or different 

 rulers is at present uncertain. 



