[322] G. Smith, "Assyrian Discoveries," p. 185-195. I retain the reading "Sisit" as against Hasisadra because of the "Sisythes" of Lucian.
[323] According to Bunsen, "Ægypt." 5, 2, 61 ff., the Hebrews originally were acquainted with only seven patriarchs before the flood; see below.
[324] Gen. ix. 20, 28; xi. 2-9.
[325] Plin. "Hist. Nat." 6, 30. Hipparenum can be nothing but Sipparenum, or Sipparenorum.
[326] If the number 34,091 be correct ([p. 241, note 2]), the year 2447 B.C. would be the first year of the historical era.
[327] It is pointed out by Von Gutschmid in the Rhein. Mus. 8, 252.
[328] Gen. x. 22; x. 8, 10.
[329] Menke, "Jahrb. für classiche Philologie," 1862, s. 545.
[330] Aesch. "Pers." 16.
[331] The name Nanchundi occurs also in the compounds Istar-Nanchundi, p. 253.