108 mr. boscawen on the historical 



Table op Names in the Genealogy of Abram. 



Note. — In connexion with these early Hebrew names I may note that in a 

 list of verbal forms in W.A.I., vol. v. plate 45, the verbal forms tutamrad, 

 tutamrada and himarad. — all derivatives from maradu, Hebrew "T^T^ " to 



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rebel," from which Nimrod is derived, occur, so that this long-disputed name 

 must be Semitic, and not a corruption of the Akkadian Amarud, as many 

 have thought. 



I have already sliown how the existence of Semitic inscrip- 

 tions from a very early period in Chaldea indicates the exist- 

 ence of a Semitic population, and as to the population during 

 the reigns of Rim- Aku, Khammurabi, and his son Samsuiluna, 

 we have access to some most valuable information. The exist- 

 ence of this Semitic population in the cities of southern 

 Chaldea at this time side by side with Akkadian and other 

 Turanian people is proved most clearly by the discovery of 

 a bilingual inscription of King Khammurabi, now in the 

 British Museum, and one column of which is written in 

 Akkadian, the other in Semitic Babylonian,* and by the dis- 



* Too mutilated to be published. 



