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and we should nut expect, the form hablxltii'", Imt ^J ^f Kf( Si{, 



11. Ihtarkn is the secondary form of the kal of harakii, 

 the meaning of which, DeHtzsch sug-gests. is "to engrave." 

 This, however, can liardly be con-ect, as such an e.xpression 

 wonld come hi rather suddenly here. i\,s it is animals that 

 are referred to in this passage, this verb ought to express 

 something relating to them, and in this connection we may 

 perhaps compare the Heb. T^k}, not with the meaning of 

 the A.V., " to roast," but with that of the LXX.. CJhnld. 

 and Syr. " to take," " catch." The h should be= ^, 

 not_ . The word linu may belong to what follows, and, 



if so, must be rendered "faithful"' — "he loveth the faithful 

 winged raven." 



12. The character ^ThI here is equivalent to the 

 Assyrian >-^|lgf|, the values of which are mv and ><nh. It is 



evidently used here, and in line 14, for ^J^, Assyrian 

 -I:I§J, nak. 



15-21. The lacunar here make the text very difficult. 

 Prof. Sayce translates and completes thus: "Who (du) is 

 the king of Rlam who has [removed?] the woodwork of 

 E-saggil [which] the sons of Babylon had erected, and has 

 [destroyed] their work? [These are the] words which thou 

 has sent saying : •' I am a king, the son of a king un[ri vailed ?]. 

 Who ([(?]?<) is the son of a king's daughter who has sat on 

 the throne of royalty? Diir-sir-ilani, the son of Eriaku, the 

 son of the queen Kur . . . has sat on the throne of royalty, 

 and in front of the sanctuary (dl) has [worshipped] 

 {iphdlihliu). Therefore {enu) let the king march," etc. 



[n 1. 15 jrf ^]]} *^, D.P. niin-wu is the difficult word. If 

 from the Akk. >^^yf, ?i/(»a, it should mean "the great Avood- 

 work." In my rendering I have regarded it as referring to 

 the chapel or shrine at the top of E-saggil. The part of a 

 word at tlie end of 1. 1(5 may be restored as *^ ^H? ruler," 

 a »/- tdf. nisakku, "ruler," "prince." Prof. Sayce has 



apparently completed this *^ ]eI^ ^M ""H^' ^'^ sa-na-a)i, 

 " unequalled." 



The last character of 1. 21 is apparently to be completed 



as X"^, i.e., *{'W^-^ Assyr. >^^>-*fpf, /.?/". The full word was 

 p(^ssil)ly kiDuni. 



