32 OLD BABYLONIAN INSCRIPTIONS 



Another inscription published on the same plate, Nos. 41 and 46, was damaged 

 at the end of each line when the scribe cut it from the block of lapis lazuli, 1 which 

 Kurigalzu dedicated to Bel. It reads: 1. A-na i,a Bel (En[-lil] ) 2. he-el ma-ti-a-ti 

 be- \l\- 2 shu\ 3. Ku-\f\i-gal-zu ri-ia-um [na-ram ila Belit?] z 4. pa-li-ih [she-mu-u 

 ihl Bel?~\, z "To Bel, lord of the lands, his lord, Kurigalzu, the shepherd beloved 

 by Belit, he who fears (and) obeys Bel." 



The cuneiform text of the lapis lazuli disc on PI. 23, No. 61, proves the correct- 

 ness of my conjecture in Z. A. VII, pp. 305-318. The fourth character of 1. 3 is, 

 however, not as I supposed, Ka but KacV The disc thus furnishes us the new and 

 interesting writing Jcaddashman 5 instead of the hitherto kadashman. 



No. 66 and 67 of PI. 25 are the obverse and reverse of the same fragment of an 

 agate ring. The dedication on it was apparently written by one king only, who, in need 

 of space, inscribed both the upper and lower side of his gift. As the remnant of the 

 last character of No. 66 is doubtless to be completed to Ka-[dwgir-i*a k '~], the ideo- 

 gram shar, standing before it, must be the title of a king, whose name ended in LIL 

 (the last character of din9ir EN-LIL or Bel). According to our present knowledge 

 of the rulers of the Cassite dynasty, the name can be read either Kudur- di " Bir EN- 

 LIL« (cf. No. 64) or Kadashman- dinsU EN-LIL (No. 65). The obverse of the ring 

 (No. 67) contains part of a name ending in \b~\u-ri-ia\_- asli], which again can be 

 completed either to ShagashalU-BuriasJi, the son of T£a(bxr- dingtr J3J¥~-LIL, or 7 to 

 .... buriash (No. 68, col. I, 5), the son of KadasJiman-'"" " EN-L1L. As no in- 

 scriptions of the former seem to have been found in Nippur, and the characters of 

 Nos. 66 and 67 resemble those of No. 68 more than of No. 64, I assign the ring to 

 the king mentioned in No. 68, i. e., in all probability Kadashman-Buriash, who, 

 according to III R. 4, No. 1, was at war with an Assyrian king. 8 The following 



1 Of. Hilprecht, "Zur Lapislazuli Frage ini Babylonischen," Z. A. VIII (in print). 



2 Briinnow, I. c, 5309. Cf. Meissner, Beitriige zum Altbabylonischen Priwtrecht, p. 115, No. 21, 3. 



3 Uncertain ; restored according to Brit. Mus., 81, 8-30, 9, 1. 8,9 (cf. Jensen, Schrader's K. B. Ill, Part 1, p. 120): 

 ri-'a(sic! instead of Jensen's 'u)-u na-ram UuBHit, pal-hu slie-mu-u ih'-Shamash. 



1 Briinnow, I. c, 2701. See also my "Nachtrag" in Z. A. VII, p. 318. 



5 This is not to be used in favor of Pinches' identification of kaddash with gaddash and gan(kan)-dash. I adhere 

 to what I remarked in Z. A. VII, p. 309, note 4, until Gaddash or Oandash, the founder of the Cassite dynasty, has 

 actually been found written with the character Ea (or Ea), or the word kad(d)ash in Cassite proper names like. Kad- 

 (d)ashman-Turgu, with the value ga (or ka). Cf. PI. 25, No. 68, col. I, 14, 15, dnmu sag Kad-ash-ma-a?i-di>wr EN-LIL, 

 "(.... riash) the first son of Kadashman-EN"-LIL." My writing dumu Ka-dd-ash-ma-an-dingir Bel (Z. A. VII, p. 

 309, note 3) is to be corrected accordingly. 



6 Generally read Kudur-BH. It would be more appropriate to transliterate him Kudur-Turgu (see below). That 

 he was king will be shown in my article, " Die ErganzuDg der Namen zweier Kassitenkonige," Z. A. VIII (in print). 



7 For various obvious reasons other possibilities have been excluded as improbable. 



8 The conjecture of Delitzsch (Eossrier, pp. 10 seq.; Hommel, Gesch., p. 437 seq.), that the Assyrian king was 

 Shalmaneser I, is proved by the new chronology which I am able to establish for a number of Cassite kings. Cf. 

 below p. 37. 



