Nov.7] PROCEEDINGS. [1893-
A SUPPLEMENTARY NOTETOGIBIL-GAMISH.*By Prof. Dr. Fritz Hommei..In addition to my remarks on the old fire-hero Gibil-gamish,as
a synonym of Gishdubarra-Nimrod, I now addthe following new
proofsof the assertions statedin my last article.
In Plate 15, No. 26 of his admirable work,tProf.Hilprechtgives
a small inscription of only eight short lines,which he describes,
p. 49, as follows :
c. 2250 b.C.} Creamcoloured soapstonetablet,reversebroken
off, 4-85 x 4 x o"8. Presumablyneighbourhoodof Babylon. Inscr.,
8 lines. C.B.M. 103.
Thetextrunsthus: which I transcribe in New-
. Assyrian characters:
"^ If ^
in &
r^^
=S*L t- n
tctJ^i Og><^^£>=»if
V <STT <ETT ET <T-iei E~IT
- Comp. theseProceedings,May,1893.
t The BabylonianExpeditionof the University of Pennsylvania, SeriesA
vol. i, Philadelphia, 1893.
X This wouldbe, according to Hilprecht's chronology(Hammurabi,2277-
2222 b.C.)contemporaneouswithHammurabi,or, in other words,the middle of
dynastyA. He was led to this approximate date,as it seems, onlyfrompateo-
graphicalreasons.
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