[Footnote 1: Orchoé, the Erech of the Bible, is certainly the Warka of the present day; Sippara, Sofeira; Nipur, Niffar; Larsam, Senkereh. Ur (the Ur of the Bible) is Mugheir; Kullab and Erikhi are unknown. (See "Expéd. en Mésopot.," i. p. 255 et seq.)]
[Footnote 2: The old empire Bal-bat-ki. The syllabaries explain this ideogram by "Assur," but it is very awkward that in these texts the identification with Assur occurs nowhere. I therefore transcribe "Sumer," which was the true name of the people and the language named wrongly Accadian. The term of "Sumerian" is supported by MM. Ménant, Eneberg, Gelzer, Prætorius, Delitzsch, Olshausen, and other scholars.]
[Footnote 3: "Itanus," or Yatnan, in the island of Crete, became afterward the name of the island of Cyprus.]
[Footnote 4: For the words in italics no satisfactory translation has as yet been found.]
[Footnote 5: The "Pekod" of the Bible (Jer. i. 21; Ezek. xxiii. 23).]
[Footnote 6: Which belongs to Elam.]
[Footnote 7: Lower Chaldea. Nearly all the names of the Elamite towns are
Semitic (see Gen. x. 22), but the Susian ones are not.]
[Footnote 8: Tiglatpileser, whom Sargon would not acknowledge.]
[Footnote 9: This is the word "siltan," the Hebrew "shilton" ("power"), the Arabic "sultan.">[
[Footnote 10: Raphia, near the frontier of Egypt.]