128 The Birds of the Assyrian Monuments and Records. 
there is not the slightest authority for it, as Delitzsch and 
Hommel have remarked; and we now know that sisu 
was the ordinary Assyrian name of the horse. Dr. Lotz 
thinks that the Assyrians called the elephant by the name of 
6u6u, and that the Hebrews in later times applied the same 
name Sus (DID) to the horse : and he very appositely instances 
the Gothic albandus, the H. G. olbanta, and the M. G. olbente, 
which originally applied to an elephant, afterwards signified 
a camel. "Dwelling in a land which produced no elephant, 
the Canaanitish people forgot the appearance of the beast 
which their forefathers had known under the name of sus, and 
when they employed the word they associated it merely with 
some indefinite form, perhaps of some large and strong beast, 
which was used as a riding animal in peace or war, as well as 
for draught purposes." This is quite probable, and I will 
further illustrate Dr. Lotz's instance of the employment of the 
name of one animal to designate another, hj the old Cornish word 
caurmarch, a camel; literally =" the mighty horse," from caur, 
" a giant " and march, " a horse." The camel being employed 
as a beast of burden like the horse, " a beast without equals " 
( Origo Mundi, 124), came to be called by the same name. 
Does the word Busu denote the elephant ? Some of the 
names of the animals on the Black Obelisk still remain to 
exercise the ingenuity of philological interpreters. I admit 
with Dr. Lotz that the names of the figured animals follow 
the order of the animals themselves ; but I entirely fail to see 
" that each name is placed directly under its corresponding 
representative." The animals occur in the following order 
on the obelisk: — (1) two Bactrian camels; (2) a horned 
bovine animal ; (3) a rhinoceros ; (4) a large antelope with 
lyrate horns; (5) elephant and monkeys; (6) apes. The 
names occur in the following order : — (1) " Camels of which 
double are their backs ; (2) " ox of i he River Saceya ; (3) 4uiu ; 
(4) Pirdti; (o) Bazidti ; (6) Udumi, Hence it will be seen 
that there are six kinds of animals figured, and six names 
given. The problem is to attach these names severally to 
their individual figured representatives. Now, as the animal 
and name agree for the camels, and occupy the first place in 
point of order, of which there is no doubt ; and as the name 
