[22]. W. A. I. v. 33, i. 37.
[23]. Padanu also had the meaning of ‘path.’ Whether this is derived from the other or belongs to a different root is questionable. But in the sense of ‘path,’ padanu was a synonym of Kharran.
[24]. This does not imply that the population which founded the kingdom of Mitanni, and probably came from the mountains of Komagênê or of Ararat in the north, was unknown in early Babylonia. In fact, one of the Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets, published by the British Museum in 1896 (Bu. 91-5-9, 296), contains the names of ‘the governor’ Akhsir-Babu and other witnesses to a contract, most of which are Mitannian.
[25]. I have given the tablet in transliteration in the Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archæology, Nov. 1883, p. 18. The passage reads: ‘14-½ shekels of lead we have weighed in nakhur.’
[26]. See Sachau, Die altaramäische Inschrift auf der Statue des Königs Panammu von Sam-al and Aramäische Inschriften in the Mittheilungen aus den orientalischen Sammlungen d. K. Museums zu Berlin, ix., and the Sitzungsberichte der K. preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, xli. (1896).
[27]. See my Races of the Old Testament, pp. 110-117, and H. G. Tomkins in the Journal of the Anthropological Institute, Feb. 1889.
[28]. In a report of an eclipse of the moon sent to an Assyrian king in the eighth century B.C., the countries of ‘the Amorites and the Hittites’ represent the whole of Western Asia (R. F. Harper, Assyrian and Babylonian Letters, Part iv. p. 345).
[29]. The discovery of the name of Shakama or Shechem in the Travels of the Mohar is due to Dr. W. Max Müller (Asien und Europa, p. 394).
[30]. Or II., according to Maspero, who makes three Hyksos sovereigns of this name.
[31]. It is in the possession of Mr. John Ward.