134 MR. BOSCAWEN ON THE HISTORICAL 



At the conclusion of the paper, the following communications were read: — 



NOTES ON ME. BOSCAWEN'S PAPER: HISTORICAL 

 EVIDENCES OF THE MIGRATION OF ABRAM. By the 

 Rev. A. H. Sayce, M.A., Dep. Professor of Comparative Philology, 

 Oxford. 



P. 97. The date of Dungi, the son of Lig-bagas, must be earlier than 

 B.C. 2500. A mutilated passage in a cylinder-inscription of Nabonidus 

 seems to show that his father, Lig-bagas, lived 700 years before Khammu- 

 ragas, whose date is about B.C. 2280. If, however, Dungi is the same 

 person as a Dungi mentioned on the monuments of Tel-Ho, he will be earlier 

 than Sargon of Accad (B.C. 3800). 



P. 98. I reserve what I have to say about the dynasty of early Babylonian 

 kings to the end of this communication, only recording my disagreement 

 from Mr. Boscawen's opinions expressed in his note about the names Ammi- 

 satana (or Ammi-ditana) and Ammi-sadiiga. A bilingual tablet tells us 

 that these are Kassite and not Semitic names,. Ammi-sadiiga meaning "the 

 family is established," and Ammi being a weakened form of hliammu (as in 

 Khammu-ragas), " a family " (Assyrian himtu). 



P. 100. Aipir was not another name of Anzan or Susiana, but denoted the 

 plain of Mai- Amir. Khalpirti is " the district of Pirti." 



P. 102. Is not Mr. Boscawen mistaken in saying that Kudur-Mabug 

 "claims to be ruler of Sumir (Shinar) and Akkad " ? 



P. 102. Mr. Boscawen's exj^lanation of Amraphel is very ingenious, but 

 he does not give any reference for the statement that Amar was a name of 

 the Moon-god. I have never come across the word so used. Moreover, the 

 Accadian jyal is not the equivalent of haladhu, " to live " ; this is tila. Pal 

 represents the Assyrian pahi, " a regnal year," and ebiru, " to pass over." If 

 I were to make any suggestion about the name of Amraphel, it would be 

 that it has been corrupted from Amar-gal, j) and g being easily interchanged 

 in the old Hebrew script. Amar-gal would be Amar-Gula, " the glory of 

 Gula," formed like the royal name Amar-Agu, " the glory of the Moon-god," 

 "which actually occurs on the monuments. 



P. 108. The name of Serug may be connected with the name of Sargani 

 or Sargon (p. 96), in which ani is a suffix. 



P. 110, Kainuv, "the establisher," can have no coimexion with the 

 Biblical Kain, since the latter name is written with an initial koph, not with 

 cap]),. 



