Journal of the transactions of the Victoria Institute, or Philosophical Society of Great Britain . n the names of the cardinal points. From a small astrbnomicaltablet we learn that the North-East was the land which the Akkadians placedbehind them, the land which they left in their journey from the East; whilethe Semites called the West Akharri—the Hinterland of the Germans—pointing to Arabia as their home. * The date of these inscriptions rests upon the statement, twice repeatedin cylinder incriptions, of Nabonidus, King of Babylon ( 555-538), thatin his restoration of the temple of the Su
Journal of the transactions of the Victoria Institute, or Philosophical Society of Great Britain . n the names of the cardinal points. From a small astrbnomicaltablet we learn that the North-East was the land which the Akkadians placedbehind them, the land which they left in their journey from the East; whilethe Semites called the West Akharri—the Hinterland of the Germans—pointing to Arabia as their home. * The date of these inscriptions rests upon the statement, twice repeatedin cylinder incriptions, of Nabonidus, King of Babylon ( 555-538), thatin his restoration of the temple of the Sun-god he found in the foundationsthe memorial record of Naram-Sin, the son of Sargon, which for 3,200(III KT^ IT T 3x 10 X 100 + 2 X lOO) years none of the kings his prede-cessors had seen ( v. 64, ii. 61). In a second cylinder (, v. 65,i. 38) the king also speaks of this discovery. In the former of these recordsthe king speaks of the Kassite king Sagarakteyas, son of Kndur-Bel, ormore probably Kudur-Kharbi, whose reign, he says, was 800 (77 I*-) years CO zg H0. q:o CO PQ ?^ j$f. a g I- LUCO >-_l < LJJ ^ o PQ la B3 Ft qi t P w \A/, ? i EVIDENCES OF THE MIGKATIUN OF Alii;AM, 97 SAR to wvite, borrowed by the Semites, and is found in theform ^DDp in the passages—such as in the diflicult passagein Jcr. li. 27, where the has appoint a captain/ and marshal. We should perhaps now read a scribe/one who should write the summons to the nations againstBabylon. And also in Nahum iii. 17, ^ Thy scribes are asthe swarms of grasshoppers/ a most pointed alhision tothe vast number of scribes attached to the royal library andtemple-schools of Nineveh. The name of this scribe ispure Semitic, both words being found in Hebrew the kinghas made. These two inscriptions of Sargon and that ofNaram-Sin* his son are ample evidence of the existence of apeople speaking a dialect akin to the Hebrew as early as thethirty-eighth century before the Christian era. From timeto
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