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



in the copy of the Hebi'ew text which they used, hence the 

 form SapyaX for SaSyaX. The Babylonian scribes seem to 

 have given it an Akkadian etymology, Tudhula apparently 

 meaning, in that language, "the evil ofFspnng." or (if we 

 regard hula as another form of gida or gala), "the great 

 offspring." The vowel of this name (if it be Akkadian) is 

 probably incorrect in both the Hebrew and the Greek forms. 

 How his father's name (of which we have only two syllables, 

 namely, Gazza- . .) is to be completed, is uncertain, but the 

 full form, as I have restored it, may be regarded as very 

 probable, being based upon what is probably the same name 

 on a tablet concerning which 1 hope to speak elsewhere. 



14. This line is the same as line 10, which see. 



15. The form muhha-su, " upon him," for the mcn-e usual 

 muhhi-su is noteworthy. 



16. The last word, the name Annunit, is interesting on 

 account of the arcliaic writing of the first syllable, the name 

 being found at 2200 B.C. and tliereabouts, spelled as above, 

 but with the ending «"' (>->f- */- J^ t^^ {An-nu-ni-tu'"). 

 The late style of writing is ^Jf- ]] *^ j^ *::<^, B.F. A-nu~ 

 ni-tw". Of course it is possible that the form in the text 

 originally had this ending, but if so, it probably had double 

 t {'^>{- *^ 5^1 >^' An-iiu-nit-tu'"-). 



Reverse. 



1 . T.'lie name of the city, Ahhe, is doubtful with regard 

 to the latter part, notwithstanding that the traces of 

 characters and the needs of the text require some such 

 character (^, hi) as is here restored. As the character p, 

 which the tablet has, seems to be impossible, I have regarded 

 the liorizontal wedge as accidental, and read simply J, a7ia. 

 '1. Here the scribe seems to have written ^y]f, zu, for 



^f , via, in niahazu. Prof. Sayce completes the last word as 

 the name of Borsippa, which is possible, in which case the 

 whole was probably written *tVf KT'^Iltl -^j Bai'-si-ip, D.S. 

 The common way of writing it is "^Q S^Iif ^) Bar-sip, 

 D.S., but the forms '^S- h ^ HhV ^' Bar-sip, D.S., 

 and ly !>- Jpy, Bur-sip, D.S., are also found, as well as 



:HT <y-4H ^}^ <y^ ^., Ba.ar-zv.pa, D.S. 



