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T. G. PINCHES, LL.D., M.R.A.S., ON 



Tutula ; Ibdafi, viceroj^ of Kubla ; and lJuUhar, viceroy of 

 Tahtahuni. Among Dungi's sons were Sur-Enzn and Istar-il-su ; 

 and Su-Sin, grandson of Dungi, had a son named Enim-Nannar. 

 All these were of the time of the dynasty of Ur, about 2300 B.C. 



P. 178. The tablets here referred to form part of the collection of 

 Mr. Harding Smith. 



P. 185. The lowest stage or plinth of E-temen-anki (the Tower of 

 Babylon) measures, according to the scale, about 95 metres (about 

 312 feet). This amounts to 300 " enlarged feet" (Babylonian) in 

 Dieulafoy's scheme. George Smith calculated that the height 

 equalled the width of the base, in which case it measured the same, 

 312 feet. M. Dieulafoy, however, makes it to have measured about 

 250 feet in all, above the level of the plain. But it is admitted that 

 the height of the Tower is very uncertain, and modifications of 

 the estimates thereof may be expected. 



P. 185. The friend to whom I owe the slides referred to is 

 Mr. W. L. Nash, L.R.C.P., Secretary of the Society of Biblical 

 Archaeology. 



P. 186. Various readings of the Aramaic form of the name 

 transcribed as Anusat by Pognon have been suggested, among them 

 being my own and Professor Prince's (independently argued) Eiiu- 

 resfU, " primaeval Lord," or the like. Hugo Radau reads En-usdti, 

 " lord of healing," whilst others favour En-aristi, En-mastii, etc. 

 The deity in question was one of the gods of war, and is generally 

 called Ninip, though Nirig is also a possible reading. For details 

 concerning his character, see the Proceedings of the Society of 

 Biblical Archaeology, December, 1906, pp. 270 fF. Interesting 

 additions might now be made to the legends about him translated in 

 that paper. 



Discussion. 



The Chairman, in thanking the Lecturer, referred to the great 

 difficulty in interpreting the cuneiform inscriptions, and said how 

 necessary it was that there should be a succession of great scholars, 

 like the Lecturer, to study them. He welcomed the references to 

 the late George Smith, and to the Hibbert lectures which Professor 

 Sayce delivered in 1887. For himself, he found the slides which 

 had been exhibited of absorbing interest, especially those relating 

 to the Tower of Babylon. 



A Lady asked whether there was any special significance in the 

 Tower of Babylon ; was it unique, or were there many such *? 



The Eev. J. J. B. Coles said that the shape of the altar shown 

 on one of the slides had struck him as being exactly like the altars 



