[3]. Thus in an Assyrian hymn (K 890), published by Dr. Brünnow in the Zeitschrift für Assyriologie, July 1889, we have (line 8) istu pan Khabiriya iptarsanni âsi, ‘from the face of my confederates he has cut me off, even me.’
[4]. Records of the Past, new ser., vi. p. 39.
[5]. Thus Kharbi-Sipak, a Kassite or Kossæan, from the western mountains of Elam, is called a ‘Khabirâ’ (W. A. I. iv. 34, 2, 5). The name is probably connected with that of Khapir or Âpir, originally applied to the district in which Mal-Amir is situated, south-east of Susa, but afterwards in the Persian period extended to the whole of Elam (see my memoir on the Inscriptions of Mal-Amir in the Transactions of the Sixth Oriental Congress at Leyden, vol. ii.). Kharbi-Sipak himself, however, seems to have been employed by the Assyrian king in Palestine in the neighbourhood of the cities of Arqa and Zaqqal (Hommel in the Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archæology, May 1895, p. 203).
[6]. W. A. I. ii. 50, 51 (where Khubur is said to be a synonym of Subarti).
[7]. W. A. I. ii. 51, 4.
[8]. Hommel, The ancient Hebrew Tradition as illustrated by the Monuments, pp. 196, 245-262, 323-327; Glaser in the Mittheilungen of the Vorderasiatische Gesellschaft, ii. 1897.
[9]. K 3500.
[10]. That Ebir-nâri signified the country west of the Euphrates in the later days of Babylonian history is shown by a contract-tablet, dated in the third year of Darius Hystaspis, and translated by Peiser (Keilinschriftliche Bibliothek, iv. p. 305), in which mention is made of ‘Ustanni, the governor of Babylon and Ebir-nâri’ (line 2). Meissner (Zeitschrift für Alttestament, Wissenschaft, xvii.) has pointed out that Ustanni is the Tatnai of Ezra, v. 3, 6; vi. 6, 13, who is there called the ‘governor of the land beyond the river’ (’Abar Nahara).
[11]. See Hilprecht, The Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania, i. 2, p. 31.
[12]. An inscription of Sargon recently published by M. Dangin (Revue Sémitique, April 1897) states that ‘the governor’ of the subjugated Amorites was Uru-Malik, where the name of Malik or Moloch is preceded by the determinative of divinity. Uru-Malik, which is an analogous formation to Uriel, Urijah, Melchi-ur (or Melchior), etc., shows that what we call Hebrew was already the language of Canaan. The inscription has been found at Tello in Southern Chaldæa.