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would be deprived of their assistance." This custom of giving 
the falcon a portion of the prey killed seems to have been in 
general use, and the falconers of more modern days similarly 
used to share their booty with the birds. It would be 
hazardous, in the absence of positive proof, to assert that this 
custom of allowing the bird to share is implied in the name 
of casasu ; but the ancient custom seems worthy of being 
mentioned. I think that some falcon is designated by the 
names which have passed under our consideration, and that 
it is probable that it was employed by the ancient inhabitants 
of Assyrian lands to aid them in the capture of winged or other 
game. In col. No. 2 the name of ^riff ^E|z 
su-vur-du — another Semitised form of the Accadian word — 
occurs as the equivalent of casusu. 
(43.) PI. 37, rev., 1. 7, ji-j «^-, khar-ba-ka-nu, 
or ^ g^= H^T If khar-bac-ca-a-nu. These two 
forms of the same bird-name should be compared with some 
names which occur on pi. 40, 4, rev., 11. 24-26, where we meet 
with Jjy JgJ tas-bal-luv, or ^ X| 
khar-ba-ka-nu, and ^~|Yf yy^ |f ta-kha-tsa-se-nu, 
all of which seem to relate to the same bird, or to birds of 
prey of different allied species or similar habits. The word 
tasballuv, another form of tasbaluv, has been already con- 
sidered. The kharbacdnu, or the full form kharbaccdnu, has 
an Accadian origin, and appears in the Assyrian column with 
the usual adjectival Semitic ending of dnu. Etymologically, 
the name is composed of -^£|z (khar) " entrails " + >~|<y 
(pak or bak~), "a bird in flight," and >~£;J>-j (m), "a mouth," 
and, I suppose, designates some eagle or other rapacious bird 
which accompanies battle-scenes, and feeds on the carcases 
of the slain. Figures of eagles carrying off the entrails of 
the dead occur on the monuments (see plate). The 
takhatsasenu designates the same bird of "the battle" fields. 
The names in the Accadian column are, unfortunately, lost, only 
fragments remaining. The character of >~< (*^y<|) opposite 
kharbacdnu, probably denotes " a dead body " (pagru, Assyr., 
bat, Accad.), and refers to the habit above mentioned. Oppo- 
site the name of kharbacdnu in pi. 40, 4, rev., 1. 25, occur the 
