[5] A. V. 'sides.'
[6] [ D.P. stands for 'Determinative Prefix.' There are thirty determinatives in Assyrian.]
The D.P.
, the sign meaning 'heaven,' or anything in heaven, is put before the name of a god.
The D.P.
, the sign meaning 'country,' is put before the name of a country.
The D.P.
, the sign meaning 'city,' is put before the name of a city, and so on.
[7] Now Shamameh, south-west Arbela
[8] The Kue or Kuans inhabited the northern and eastern shores of the Gulf of Antioch. M. François Lenormant has ingeniously suggested that in 1 Kings x. 28, we ought to read (with a slight change of vowel punctuation), 'And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and out of Kue the king's merchants received a drove at a price.'
[9] On the bronze gates of Balawât Adennu is written Adâ and Barga Parga.
[10] Identified by Delitzsch with the Ephah of Gen. xxv. 4, and Is. lx. 6.
[11] That is 'the Egyptian;' cf. 2 Sam. xxiii. 20, 21.