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MR. BOSCAWEN ON THE HISTORICAL 



the outer text is damaged, the inner one is complete and the 

 deed preserved. 



The majority of the tablets are written in the 

 agglutinative Akkadian dialect, but among them are six 

 written in Semitic Babylonian. Among the witnesses, how- 

 ever, in the Akkadian tablets many Semitic names appear. 

 These tablets, coming as they do from the immediate region of 

 Ur of the Ohaldees at a time almost exactly contemporary 

 with the time of Abram, furnish an undoubted proof of the 

 existence of a people speaking a language and bearing names 

 similar to those of the early Hebrews. 



In the following list I have selected only a few, but many 

 more might be added. 



List op Names from Tablets Dated in Reigns of 

 Khammurabi and Ertaku. 



