[702] Weisbach, op. cit. pp. 13, 45. He has since given in his adhesion to the orthodox view. See Zur Lösung der Sumerischen Frage (Leipzig, 1897), pp. 16, 36.
[703] Trans. S. B. A. iii. 466.
[704] Rawlinson was the first to show that the Alarodians of Herodotus (iii. 94, vii. 79) were probably the Uradhians or people of Ararat of the Assyrian texts. See Sayce on Van, J. R. A. S. 1882, vol. xiv.
[705] The knowledge of Kassite is limited to about fifty words found in a lexicon list (Hommel, p. 47, note 3). Delitzsch denies their relationship to Susian.
[706] Of Hittite it could still be said in 1893, ‘So far we know nothing whatever about the Hittite language’ (J. R. A. S. 1893, p. 404). Cf. Conder’s notes in the same volume, p. 823.
[707] Mr. Sayce succeeded in deciphering the Vannic in 1893 and 1894 (J. R. A. S. 1894, p. 699).
[708] Conder on Lycian, J. R. A. S. 1891, p. 614.
[709] Beiträge, 1840, p. 60.
[710] Rich, Babylon and Persepolis, p. 185, note.
[711] The third system is seen in Rich, Pl. IX. No. 4. Cf. Rawlinson, J. R. A. S. x. 24.