Babylonian Literature - Livres de poche

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 75 APPENDIX. Page 6, line 21.?Dr. F. Delitzsch has recently suggested that Accad and Sumir were not respectively south-eastern and north-western Babylonia, as has hitherto been believed by Assyrian scholars, but that the converse was the case. Two facts, however, go to show that the ordinary opinion is correct. First of all, Sumir, or Sungir, answers to the Hebrew Shinar, Accadian (n)g (for original m) between two vowels being represented by Hebrew (3), as in Cudur-lagamar = "IDJ/'IID, or Turgal = QopyaX, byir, and since Shinar contained the cities of Babel, or Babylon, Erech (now Warka), and Calneh, or Kul-unu, it must have been in the north-west. In the second place, a syllabary gives Uri, or Ur, the modern Mugheir, as the Accadian equivalent of tWy, " Accad," and Ur falls within the southern division of the country. Page 7, line 22.?For the tradition that the Phoenicians had originally come from the Persian Gulf, see Strabo i. 2, 35; xvi. 3,4; 4, 27; Justin, xviii. 3, 2; Pliny, N. H., iv. 36; Herodotus i. I; vii. 89; Schol. to Homer, Od., iv. 84. Page 8, line 31. For these tables of squares and cubes see my paper on " Babylonian Augury by means of Geometrical Figures " in the Trans. Soc. Bib. Arch., Vol. IV., 2, p. 3n-314. The tables belong to the Accadian epoch, the square being called ibdi, and the cube badie. Page g, line 24.?The Assyrian text (though unfortunately mutilated) is as follows (W. A. I. III., 52, 3 Rw,, 33): .... ina dippi-ca mi-nav ta-gab-bi .... on thy tablet the number (which) thou statest i-gab-bu-ca-va ci . . . . (the librarian) shall state to thee and according to ... Page n, line 14.?The cylinder from Kuruim runs thus: 1 Abil-D.P.-Istar Abil-Istar 2 abil Iln-ba-lid son of Ilu-balid 3 ebed D.P. Na-ra-am-D....