compound, unless we have reason to believe that there was a corresponding 
Akkadian value. Here we have none such, but, on the contrary, the distinc- 
tion in Genesis to forbid our assuming it. I believe the four rivers of Para- 
dise are named together in W. A. /., vol. ii. 50. 
Alter Bar-tiff-gar or I-cli-gal-lat 
and Ud-kib-nun-ki or Pu-rat-hm, 
comes Guhaanun or Arahtum. 
This must be Gihon or Araxes. 
Then we have A-la-at , the river of the god Mas, and A-la-at is written as 
a gloss of his name. But he had also the name A- la-la, and if £:^y, be 
a blunder for la, we may suppose A-la-la here. Theu A-lal is re- 
peatedly given as a synonyme of Pi-sa-an, p»D for 
[Mr. Sayce writes : Dr. Haigh’s objection has much weight, but the doubt- 
ful value is found in one of those syllabaries which give the Accadian names 
and phonetic values of the characters in the third column, not the Assyrian 
renderings. 
I have come across the character with the value of ffikh elsewhere. 
Dr. Haigh’s conjecture about Alai falls through from the fact that the 
is not a blunder for *^^1- As I told him some time ago, his comparison 
of Gukhanun and Gihon strikes me as good.] 
20. Ur (or Sin in Semitic). The moon-god had several names (there were 
fifteen of them in a tablet iu W.A.I., vol. ii. 54). Now, Ur- (or Sis-) ki is 
the name which is found on the Mughcyer bricks, and a tablet tells us that 
this was his name in Elam. I have identified Mughcyer builders with the 
Median or Elamite dynasty of B.C. 2287, so that the use of the Elamite name 
of the god there would be natural. But, how was the name read ? I am 
inclined to think it was Sis-ki, and that the territory of Mughcyer was also 
named Sis ki after him. Thus I explain in Jerem. xxv. 2G, and li. 41, 
which was certainly not Babylon, for b>33 is mentioned iu connection with it. 
Nabu-kudur-ussur and his dynasty devoted themselves to the restoration of 
Mugheyer, so that they, and especially Nabunahid, might well be called kings 
of Shishak, poetically and prophetically. 
[Mr. Sayce writes on this ; If Dr. Haigh is right, rather kings “ of the city 
of 
I have to remark on the text : 1. That anyhow the city Ur gave its name 
to the district. The exact names of the city are given by M. Lcnormant, 
La Langue <prim., 340. Uru-unu (dwelling of the moon-god), the sacred name, 
and Uru, the ordinary name. See also Menant, Babylone , &c., 72. 2. Uru 
was an Accadian name of the moon-god, who was called Sin in Semitic; how- 
ever the sign on the Mugheyer bricks may be read (a.r or sis). — H. G. T. 
3S. “It is clear,” &c. I do not dispute the fact; on the contrary, 1 
believe that Terali was “ brother of the king of Warka” ; but I do not think 
their names indicate it. Abu-ramu, “Abu is high,” was a personal name in 
