Fishing from the Earliest Times

by William Radcliffe

[954] Sumerian Grammar (London, 1917), p. 60.

[955] Proc. of Soc. of Biblical Archæology (London, May, 1918), p. 83.

[956] Lewysohn’s (Zool. d. Talmud, 248, as quoted by Keller, op. cit., p. 330) “Euphrat heisst etymologisch der fischreiche” is far from generally accepted. The river in Babylonian is Purattu, pronounced by the Persians Ufratus, which became when borrowed by the Greeks, Euphrates. So far from meaning rich in fish, Langdon traces the name to the Sumerian buranna, burnuna, meaning great basin.

[957] Diod. Sic., III. 22.

[958] See General Marshall’s Report on Mesopotamian Campaign in The Times, Feb. 21, 1919.

[959] History of Sumer and Akkad (London, 1910), p. 268.

[960] The hiatus probably may be filled by the word “recall,” or“ bring away.”

[961] Letters of Hammurabi (London, 1898-1900), vol. III. pp. 121-3, L. W. King.

[962] N. H., V. 27.

[963] N. H., VI. 31.