The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-24

IN ths nsw fFAUnana. n sny furthsr
svidsnos ussaed % shsw that tho cd
value Tor this Gan Was continued through
out all psriodsg And yea this 10 Prof.
HIlprsoht's chief photographic evidsnos
for dating the tablet az 2ioO D. c.! The
use % for . 10 hhSwtss very common
in the Cassits period. II 10 sufficient 70
refer Co the following passages In Gays
Caaaits tsHtn. Volume XIV. Nr. .. ~ ant
~, .. compared With Mr. I3S. ~; Volume
Nv. Mr.. Iso. o. 10. ?. 10. -. 10. col-
umn Z. 20. aud INTERCHANGEABLE with .:
and 90 also In thu casS a q Cassie name
msnsSonsd by Hilpr0cht himasf Baby
loniAn RzpsAtsioa.' Volume III. page
iN. II any mare OviAgnco nsededP
An sarmark of shS period 20 which
Prof. HilpreSht would assign thS fTas-
msnt 10 The attAohmsne Of Q nnal lSttsT
N 20 words. So the word Ai-shs (sen)
Ia written In ths Older period Ai-sAS-im.
and a-bu-bi Cdslugs) 10 written a-bs-bi-i~:
ls-Pu-St-ts 70 writssa ls-ps-sf-tsA; 90
bH-ks - written ub-bu-ku-Sm Tor kaml:
but all thess words are written in the nsw
fraGmsnt without the n. whsroAs the two
words which are written with the ~.
namely. si-1n 1fisldp and na-pisA-tiSa
llifel, are Just the words that continue to
be written this way into the late AssyTiAn
and Neo-RabyloalAn periods.
The general character % the sigma on
this tablst point claariy 20 the Castle
period. which would make tho tablet ssv-
ersl hundred years later than Hilprochts
~ much ~ SO years after
the period to which he A~saOned 10. Hill
precht makes much u the fast also THAI
only about half q doRsn fragments of
the Ca&slts period we're found on Tab
let Hill during tho first two expeditions
aud that these were carried there from
their original position on the mound
opposite to the Temple Library. which
vas in ruins before the Cassie period. In
the time Of these rulers. a. he clAins. the
Temple Library was situated On Q mount
TO the west. separated from the older
library by q canal. But In the Cniver-
sity Of PennsylvaDia museum there 10
nov on exhibition q tablet excavased In
the fourth campaign. when according to
Hilprscht hlEnseh the site % the later
library was not touched. which 10 die
tinctly MARKED IN the prOfe~aOris Own
Hymn. CAaaits Temple
Library dvD-: that 10. fourth campaign.
Another unfortunate lapse Of memory
which disposss of the Distinction. i'm
probable on other grounds. botween
an -oldsF' and later Temple Library.
and shows that tAblsts Of The Castle
period wers found by Haynes In the fourth
campaign.
There - in , PierpOnt MoreAn's
library . tablet containing an account
Of the BAbyionian Deluge story which
10 dated In the tenth year Of King Ammi-
corresponding 10 about eooO B. C..
or according 90 other scholars. q century
OF % later. This 10 the oldest version
% the BabyioniAn Deluse known 10 ~. and
not Prof Hilprscht's fragment. which IN
several centuries lstsr. Moreover. the
and may properly be spoken Of a. q sepa-
rate version. since Il furnishes . different
name fcr The haro az the Dsl1Gs from that
lound In the Asurbanipal Library.
The new fragment. u ws leave out the
Extraordinary additions made 10 10 by
Prof Htlprechs. doss not c0ntain q single
tenn not found in ths AsurbAnipal
version. unIsss IL 10 the description Of
The ship by an Obscure term. II u means
- Hilprecht believes. then
L 10 msrely . -Sunsrian' synonym tO
the term large house which occurs ~
= description of the ship in the Asur-
banipal version. whbch. by the way,
nov embraces. through the discovery
oG additional frAgments. over 30 lines.
Coming 20 Prof. Hilprscht's translation.
The only certain rsnderingE are: 80 -As
many a. there are. ! will bring overthrow.
C2) "build q great ship: o.
with q strong deck Though roof would
no bettsF) cover IL: co. beasts Of the
Held. birds Of bsavsn.-
In line he supplies 70 q sinGls word
naming 20 -lOossn.- hut which may also
mean 70 interpret the words "conhnss
u heaven and ear-h.- referring a. a justi-
lcation 20 q con iectural emendation made
~ Jensen 20 a line IN the Asurbanipal
vsrsion. but which occurs in an entirely
iiHeren. context-that 10 not even
,araIlsl passage 60 the one IN the rev
'raGmeut The line in question may
more plausibly refer - an -inteTpreta tion-
u a dream ssnt 20 warn The hero % the
Deluge In the next line hia translation
u -izAbat- 40 -s~esp away 10 impos~i-
Die. This IL q most common word and
means -sslss.- and the part ~ the line
,reserved reads -An men togetber ~ will
.eize- To get the sense e sweep away
IiIprecspt assumes that -iSAbst- stands for
ishabat- and this for -ishahAt- with .
iiferent dentAln, and which actually
means TO strike such pathology 10 sim
Wv pr-posssrous and N reaortsd 90 - as To
Justify the restoration "a deluEe : will
make ansb IL shall sweep away all men
oeethev- There " not the slightest
variant for such restoration. ~hich. !
y he sure. furnishes the professor With !
ne ~ his interesting parallels With the |
3lblical story The most interesting |
n the~s parallels. however. 10 secured by |
Prof Hilprscht IN line -. where with
aim assurance that calls forth AdnirA- !
ion ha ads and the creeping things. |
90 ~ everything We docs not even |
ell 10 how The RabytonlAn original would |
'xpreas the restoration. and for the very
rood reason that We do not know What |
creeping things " In nabyloniAn. |
imagine Q scholar finding q fra9m~ni OF |
Ovid or Arissophanes and filing out a |
Inc without even making the restoration |
n latin or Greek. but only in an kngliah |
an a 4