MayI] PROCEEDINGS. [1894.(secondarilyformedfromthe well-known jn"», " to know "). Even
Jensen (" Kosmologie," p. 403) comparedthisBabylonian mindi
(manda,mindcmd)withHebrew SH'TO,whichlaterotherscholars
longago had identified withAram. OJHTp andSyr. ^o^o But
I am surprised to see that hithertono one has compareda third
Semiticadverb,viz.,the Ethiopic A^J^: endd'i, "fortasse,"" num
forte,"" nescio an,"which Dillmann analysed as composed of
en, " not, " and dd'i, " my knowledge." If we consider the existence
offormsasthe Biblical Aramaic,2nd sing., SHlh; 1st sing., 5H2N;
3rd plur., jljn^,it seems moreprobableto see in the first syllable
of the Ethiopic particlea similar dissimilation. In every case the
Ethiopicendd'imustnot be passed by if the etymology of mindi,
yTTO, etc., is sought for ; that we here have a derivative of the
rooty~r, is now put without doubt.
§ 3. In the same partof the Zeitschrift fur Assyriologie (vol.ix,
p. 101-104), Dr. Bruno Meissner, the authorof the excellent
book," Beitrage zumAltbabyl.Privatrecht" (Leipzig, 1 893), speaks
on the Elamitic campaignof Tiglathpileser I, as referred to in the
fragment K. 2807 (W.A.I., II, 5, No. 4). He seems quiteto
haveforgottenthatI myself, in my "Geschichte Babyloniensund
Assyriens,"p. 511 f., p. 522, p. 523, f., and p. 527, note5, treated at
greatlengthon this fragment and the other fragmentsof similarshape,
(W.A.I.,III, 5, Nos. 1, 2, and 5). Compare especiallyp. 512. "die...
Namen weisen ganzvon selber auf die siidostlichen Bergvolker
kassitisch-elamitischerNationalitat." AlsoTiele,but in much shorter
terms,speakson these fragmentsin his " Geschichte," p. 159, and
beforehimLotz," Die Inschriften Tiglathpileser'sI," p. 193 f. The
nameV |r ^ \ -Ef |J EtEff, No.2, 15 (but, in the annals 2,100
V" ^ -^Idf T? iTi 1S even la mv book, p. 523, note4, cor
rected intoV f| ^ ^S^Hf T{ ££T? (matA-kash-ka-a-ya),so that
we have onlyto read «-£j»-yfor "\ >-£y. I maintained there,in
accordancewithG. Smith (andagainst Lotz),thatthe fragment 4,
whichcontainsthe Elamitic campaign,belongsto Assur-ris-isi, but
added(p. 511, note1) : " Sollte es dennoch nicht denAnnalen
Assur-ris-isi'sangehoren,dannkannallerdingskaumein anderer als
TiglathpilesarI, noch in Betracht kommen."
§ 4. In the so-called cylinder inscriptionof Sargon, we read,
line 54, ana--]^Jf J^<f"£tj ra-shi-batNinuaat-ta-shika-ti,
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