[ [2] Hyde's words are 'ductuli pyramidales seu cuneiformes.'
[ [3] For the language of Mitanni, called that of Su(ri) in the Assyrian lexical lists, see Jensen, Brünnow, and myself in the Zeitschrift für Assyriologie, v. 2, 3 (Aug. 1890), and for that of Arzawa see my letter to the Academy, Aug. 20, 1892, PP. 154, 155.
[ [4] The date partly depends upon the number of years assigned to the dynasty to which Nabonassar belonged, which unfortunately is not stated by the native historians. Consequently, other Assyriologists make it, sometimes a little higher, sometimes a little lower. For the justification of my date see the Records of the Past, New Series, pp. viii-xi.
[ [5] A contract-tablet exists dated at Sippara in the second year of Sin-sar-iskun, which shows that the rule of the king was acknowledged in Babylonia.
[ [6] As determined by Dr. Oppert.
[ [7] Capitals denote that the Semitic pronunciation of the ideograph is unknown.
[ [8] Zaggara, rendered by the Semitic bit ili (Beth-el), 'house of God,' as well as by asirtu, 'the symbol of the goddess Asherah' (mistranslated 'grove' in the Authorized Version of the Old Testament).
[ [9] The fracture of the tablet makes the arrangement of this Dynasty not absolutely certain.
[ [10] The reading of the name of this god is doubtful. It has been variously transcribed Bar, Nin-ip, and Adar, the last of which, however, is certainly wrong.