416 PRIMITIVE HISTORY OF THE lONIANS. 



murabi's great claim to tlie gratitude of posterity was tlie construction 

 of a river or canal; to which he gave his own name.^^ I do not yet 

 know where among the descendants of Onam to place the wife of this 

 monarcli, but, from the presence among her descendants of the names 

 Shema and Shammai, I feel justified in supposing that she belonged 

 to the line of Shammai, while other reasons would lead me to place 

 her in the next generation after Appaim, Ahban and Molid — she 

 being probably the daiighter of one of them. Turning to other con- 

 nections by marriage with the family of Onam, the first that appears 

 is tbe memorable union of which the Egyptian monuments inform us, 

 that formed an article in the treaty of peace between Onnos and 

 Usecheres. Aches or Achnzam, the son of the latter, married a 

 daughter of the Heliopolitan king. This Aches or Achuzam I have 

 identified with Aos or Hea of Babylonia, whose wife is Dauke or 

 Davkina,®' and the latter must represent the daughter of Onam .and 

 sister of Jadag, being in form like the Idyia whom mythologists 

 make the wife of ^etes of Colchis. 



The reader of my essay on the Shepherd Kings will find many 

 erroneous identifications, under the head of the Assyi-ian and Baby- 

 lonian connections of the Ashchurites, into which I w"as led by the 

 absence of full information regarding the family of Onam. Such, I 

 think, is the supposition that Achashtari or Xisuthrus, like Achuzam, 

 married into the Onite line.''® I have already indicated the proba- 

 bility of Jonathan, a second Onnos or Ninus, forming a union with 

 a daughter of Achashtari. The sons of Xisuthrus or Achashtari 

 are given in tradition as Zervan, Titan and Japetosthes. Titan, a 

 name peculiarly solar, I shall yet show to relate to Jonathan, who 

 is the son-in-law of the father of Zervan.®® A sister of Zervan was ^ 

 Zn"panit or Zeripho, which is an Ascalonian name for Semii-amis, 

 and Semiramis the wife of N"inus was the daughter of Caystrus, whO' 

 is Achashtari.^"" In this way the sons of Jonathan became associated 

 with the Ashchurite line. The elder of these, Peleth, seems accord- 

 ingly to have been an Assyrian monarch, bearing the name of Asshur- 



9' Rawlinson's Herodotus, App. Book i. Essay x. 



83 It is more probable, as stated in note 88, that he married a daughter of Manahath the headi 

 of the Horite line of Shobal. The marriage of his daughter to a grandson of Onam, bearing a 

 very similar name, naturally led to the erroneous supposition. 



99 In the Greek connection Titan will appear in intimate relation with the family of Jonathan. 

 It is presented also in the Irish and Welsh traditions. Titan was peculiarly a solar designation.. 

 Tithonus is not to be dissociated from it. 



wo Guigniaut, ii. 878, ii. 33, 



