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is an attempt to restore the legend according to the usual phraseology of this class 

 of inscriptions : Obverse, \_ Di,i: "'' En-Ul lugal-a-ni-(ir) Ka-da-as7i-ma-cm-B]u-ri-ia- 

 [ash], Reverse, {dumu (sag) Ka-da-ash-ma-an-' a Mt]-lil lugal Ka\_-dingir-ra u a-mu- 

 na-sJiub], "To Bel, his lord, Kadashman-Buriash, (first) son of Kadashman-EN- 

 LIL, king of Babylon, presented it." 



The question remains to be settled, whether the name of the father of Kadash- 

 man-Buriash is to be read Kadashman-Bel, as has generally been done, 1 or Kadash- 

 man-Enlil 2 or still in another way. The second reading needs no refutation. It is 

 in itself impossible. The first seems to me at present improbable. For while there 

 are Babylonian proper names which are composed of Babylonian words and the name 

 of a foreign god, 3 there is no evidence that there were in use any which contain a 

 Cassite word and at the same time the name of a Babylonian deity. The example 

 quoted by Delitzsch' should be read ]^azi-Shihu. 5 For this very reason I regard 

 the correct pronunciation of Kadashman-'"' !7 "'-E^V"-iJZf as being either Kadashman- 

 Kharbe 6 or Kadashman-Turgu," in other words the Cassite king Kadashman- 

 di7, ° ir EN-LIL may represent either of the two persons. Which of the two 

 is the more probable? There are two Cassites of the name Kadashman-Kharbe 

 to be considered. The one was the father of Kurigalzn I. 7 As, however, there is no 

 proof that he was a king, 8 we leave hjm here out of consideration, the more readily, 

 as other reasons make his identification with Kadashman- d "" ,ir ^/A r -iZZy well-nigh 

 impossible. The other Kadashman-Kharbe is entirely out of the question, 9 as none 

 of the six kings following the latter successively, according to List b, ends in ... . 



1 e. g., Delitzsch, Kossaer, p. 20 ; Piaches, The Academy, September 5, 1891, p. 199, b, and last Hilprecht, Z. A. 

 VII, p. 316. 



- Homrnel, Gesch., p. 43S : Kara-Inlil. 



3 e. g., Shuhamuna-ahiddina (Delitzsch, Kossaer, pp. 18, 21, 28), Kashshu-nadin-ahu (ib.). 



* Kossaer, p. 18, note 1. 



5 For Cass. Shihu = Babyl. Marduk cf. Delitzsch, Kossaer, pp. 20, 21, 39. Prom the few published documents 

 in which Nazi-Shihu or members of his family (cf. the passages on p. 42) are mentioned, it is evident that this Cassite 

 family lived in Northern Babylonia and was very prominent and influential. Even Nebuchadrezzar I, shalilu Kash- 

 shi, treated its chief with distinction (Freibrief, col. II, 12 : Kalu Akkad). In view of the true character (Hil. 

 precht, Z. A. p. 311, note 3) of the so-called "Cassito-Semitic vocabulary " (Delitzsch, Kossaer, p. 24 seq.), and of what 

 has been said about the formation of proper names above, I believe Nazi-Shihu in V R. 44, 43a, to be the same person as 

 the high dignitary who appears as the first witness in the "Freibrief " of Nebuchadrezzar I. 



6 For Kharbe = Bel cf. Delitzsch, Kossaer, p. 23 ; for Turgu = Bgl cf. Hilprecht, Z. A. VII, p. 316, note 3, and 

 the following lines above. 



' Cf. Winckler in Z. A. II, pp. 307-311 



8 Against Delitzsch, Gesch. (" Ubersicht "), who does not hesitate to number him among the Cassite rulers. 



9 The principle stated by Winckler in Z. A. II, p. 310, 1. 7-10, is correct, but his identification of Kadashman- 

 B§1 with Kadashman-Kharbe is impossible. 



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