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THEO. G. PINCHES, ESQ., NOTES UPON SOME OF THE 



(h^< *^] <} f izt), "a mountain of Phoenicia," identified by 

 Prof. Hommel with the Tidnu of the Semitic Babylonian 

 and Assyrian inscriptions, which would correspond to the 

 mountainous portion of Syria and Canaan.* This stone was 

 used for the urpadda (J]y {$ *BW> probably gate-posts, 

 provided with slots to receive the bars of the gates. From 

 a place called Kd-gala-ada (s=y *^I— *p^| ^f) — apparently 

 the Assyrian Sv£^ ^y*- ]} ^ ^ ^J^f Abulti-dbi-sn.^ which is 

 explained! as equivalent to fc£^f ^^ ^JTT Bdbu hurru§ — in 

 the mountains of Ki-mas or Kibar (^f >{-), copper ( *^k} era) 

 was brought to make a certain part of the structure or its 

 decorations.! From Melugga (V I— S^TyyT IK)> identified by 

 Lenormant as part of the peninsula of Sinai, ^.sw-wood was 

 brought for the edifice, and_the same kind of wood seems 

 to have been gotten from Kirzan (^ } y r O^T Kirzanu™) also. 

 From the mountains named Gagu m (rh{ ^ Z-X^l) anc * from 

 the mountains of Melugga (Sinai) gold-dust (W ^<$ ^ff ^|| 

 gushin sagaraba) seems to have been obtained, not for E-ninnu, 

 but for a temple called E-martu. Gudea imported also 

 a material called lidri ((^ *tTI,)> and galup-wood (t=y }W "r+y 

 ■^1) from Gubin (•£-* £Z #^ $^)i "the land of (ralup-trees " 

 (V" ^ £W *r?y *^y), apparently to make pillars to support 

 the roof of the temple. A material IF suggested by Amiaud 

 to be bitumen was obtained from Madga ( ^y Z^f Zfii ^PT)» 

 which is described as a mountainous country by the river 

 Lunula (t|^ Z^ftY fr £f ^= $J *£]*] Z&i] gursag Luruda-ta, 

 lit., "a mountain in the river Luruda"). From a place called 



* In the lists \ £*~-*Q , printed for the first time correctly by Briinnow. 

 The Semitic rendering is ahaml. 



t " His father's great gate " — a parallel to the modern " sublime Porte." 



\ W.A.I. II, 52, 55. 



§ "The hollow gate" i.e. "passage," — "hohle Gasse." 



|| M. Amiaud connects the name of the place called Ki-raas wilh the 

 word read as kemassu, translated as " copper." This I doubt. The phrase 

 in question in which it occurs is kima ke-massi limmasis, which I translate 

 "may he (the sick man) be pure like bronze." The Akkadian equivalent 



of ke-massi in this passage is Aj ""H^J HF~ (sipar). Ke-massi may be 

 connected with kimas, but it is worthy of note that one of the words 

 for bronze was »~>^< \, kit, which may have been regarded as the nomina- 

 tive case of ki, in which case ke-massi would be a compound. 



