Time3] SOCIETYOF BIBLICAL ARCH/EOLOGY. [i?90."transport" (e.g., a people), "distant"(nisu),and"to open" (pit//);
and bad,"wall,""citadel,""high"(duru,elti),as well as bar, "to
depart," "remove,""distant" (nisti,nussti); bar, "distant places"
(rikdtu; cp. ki-bad, nisatu);bar, "to open" (pitu);bar,"walls,"
"fortified town" (kamdtu, mah&zu), and "high" (Hitu, cldtu).
Further, bad or bid, "dead," "corpse"(m'ttu,pagru), answers to
bar, "a corpse" (pagru). Hencewe see that pa, old sound pat
or bat (= bad), "a sacrifice to the gods of the road, made at
startingon a journey," maybe cognate withbar," to depart " ; and
so in other cases. Theintermediatesound mayhave hadfinal 5
(=t,d) ; cp. er and e§, "to weep," gir andGiS, "heaven," with
(g)us(or gis) and gud, "blood," (g)us, "to set up" (emedu)
'high"(Saku,el&tu),and gud,"high"(HA). Thereare numerous
instancesin which we find a Chinese term withfinal-k, i.e., G, in
placeof Accadian r and l. As final d and g interchange so
frequentlyin Accadian, thisis not surprising. TheAccadianbar,
" iron " (parzillu), mayperhaps,therefore, be compared withthe
Chinesepoh, dialecticpok,bok, i.e., bag = bar; in the compound,
poh-t'ieh,"rawor unwrought iron."*
Hencealsobar,"liver,""feeling,""disposition,"maybe com
paredwithp'oA(bag), dialecticp'ak,p'ek,p'dk(=bag,big), "the
animal soul," "the senses"; bar, "to transport," "remove"
(nussu), withp'oh "tobanish, exile, driveinto the desert"; bar,
"a brother," withpoh, "eldest brother," dialecticpak, pek, pak
( = big, beg, bag); bar(in babbar = bar-bar) "white,"withpoh,\
"white,"dialecticpak,pik;andpoh,"a piebald horse,"dialecticpok,
pak,bbk (= pag, bag)withbar,"spotted,striped,variegated." On
the other hand,poh, "backto back," the 105thradical, dialectic
put,pivat(puat), beh,has final d (bad, bud,bid) = bar, "back,"
"behind" (arku, arkcttu, ahru, ahratu); and p'o, "white,"
dialectic p'b, bit, old sound ba, seems to point to ba(r), bu(r).
Similarly, p'o(ba-r), dialecticpo, p'wan, bu (= bar, ban, bur),
maybe compared with£^$bar,"a stone." TheChinesetermis
defined"stoneslikeflintor obsidian, whichcan be used for spear
or arrow-heads." It is not likely that the numerous values of the
- The Chinese call t'ieh, "iron"(old sounddit = Canton fit),the black metal;
dit is perhaps, therefore,relatedto ^flfy, DIM,DIR,"black."
t The planetVenusis called T'ai-poh,whichirresistiblyrecallsthe Accadian
dil-bad,AfAe^iir(Hesych.),the planet Venus.
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