Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 365 



LX. — On a Coincidence between a Babylonian Cuneiform Inscrip- 

 tion op Nebuchadnezzar, and a Passage in the Book op Daniel. 

 By Denis Crofton, Esq., B. A., M. B. I. A. 



[Eead June 14, 1875.] 



I wish to direct your attention shortly to a coincidence between a 

 part of Nebuchadnezzar's eight-line cuneiform brick inscription, and a 

 passage referring to the same king, in the Book of Daniel, chap, iv., 

 verses 26, 27, (29, 30, Eng. Auth. Version). 



The part of the inscription alluded to may be found in Oppert, 

 "Expedition Scientifique en Mesopotamie," tome.n., page 277, as. 

 under : — 



*h -< ET • SffT • if- • If ^T • -* m «=!■ 



'i — NTT — MA. HEKAL. A - NA. MU — SA — AB. 



33P ^ftrf HP mi- 



SAR — RU — TI - YA. 



m ^y . ^ ^eyy ey^y . —-] E ^y yfe/. 



I - NA. IR - SI. IT BAB - ILTJ. 



Ef-f • \tr fffi • sf ti m Ie> • M ST EST eeT- 



SA. EI - RLB. BA - BI - LIT. 'i - PIT US. VA. 



The Babylonian or Assyrian words in this passage have their ana- 

 logues in Hebrew, thus : — 



l Inuma corresponds with Jill/. Sehal, signifying a "palace," is 

 a complex monogram or ideogram, compounded of lit correspond- 

 ing with JV3, and rab with 3"1- Ana is an Assyrian preposi- 

 tion, and answers to 7 ; mused) is a derivative from 3£^K> equivalent 

 to the Hebrew 3££^ ; sarrutiya is one from a correspondent to *T"|&* 

 being a derived noun with a pronominal suffix ; ina is another Assy- 

 rian preposition, and corresponds with 3. ', 'itstt with IH tf . Babilu 

 is the first time here, expressed ideographically, as 33 /bs ITII 

 " Gate of the God of the deluge," and with an ideogram for a country, 

 (syllabically hi) after it. Sa answers to J£J or ") tf/$ ; kirib corre- 

 sponds to 3"! P. Babilu is next given, spelt phonetically. 'Ipusva 



