G ^E^^ ^tsr

\jk \0 °^ (suffi X of the ac- ^^^ > cusative).

Kus-Kus-kus *' a temple".

. .ne "shrine''.

** image".

determinative of supremacy.

beloved".

^^ "togive".

^^ ''head", '^chief".

^^ er "toerect", ^'es- Ci tablish".

The title which is usually coupled with that of " powerful " is found for example in J. II, 1 ; at the beginning of the line, where we read e-Y-we-kus, foUowed by the determinative of ' * power " (the arm holding a dagger) . In the last Une of the same inscription, the same word, written e-F, and foUowed by the determinative of '* power ", précèdes the word ** powerful ". Else where the place of the character F is taken by another cha-

(1) Iq j. II, 4, the determinative is prefixed to the ideograph. The ideograph is used alone, withoui the detenninative, lUiortly before. The passage reads : ** The prophet of the god (ideograph), who has made the pedestal of the image of the god ** (determinative and ideograph). The word ** pedestal *' is denoted by the bull's head (er), " to erect ", and the boot, the symbol of what is ** beiow *\

racter G, as in J. m, 5; and, on the Bagdad bowl, both F and G are joined together, so tbat we bave e-G-F. The word denoted by thèse characters can hâve only one signification, that of '* great ". Where e-F occurs without any suffixes, the meaning seems to be adverbial, '* greatly " or " very ".

An ideograph which twice occurs in J. ii. (Unes 1 and 5) and represents two persons embracing one another carries its meaning on its face. It must signify " to love " or '* to bc lovcd by ". In the first passage in which it is found, the suffix -we is attached to it, and it is preceded by the name of the deity who was specially worshipped at Carchemish. In the second passage, no suffix is added to it, and it is followed by the numéral ** nine", which js explained by the phrase " the nine powerful gods " which immediately précèdes it. The sensé of the two passages is therefore obvions ; the first will be '* beloved by the god... ", the second *' beloved by the nine ".

The phrase : *' the nine powerful gods ", just alluded to, follows a word consisting of the two characters H and K. In J. ni, 4, thèse two characters are preceded by the determinative of *'speaking" (a face with a word issuing from the mouth). As the ideograph of ** god " follows, it is clear that the word must signify either '* prophet " or " oracle ", either " prophet of the god " or '* oracle of the god ". The column (A), which ends the sentence in J. m, 4, proves that in this case, at ail events, the word means *' oracle "\

In J. II, 4, however, the word is a title of the prince, or rather High-Priest, to whom the monument belongs. Hère, accordingly, the signification of '* prophet " will be the one which we must sélect. In J. m, 2, H, without its phonetic complément K, is followed by ku, the suffix of the first person singular of the verb, and preceded by the determinatives of *' personality " and of '' speaking ". Consequently it must signify '* I utter ", '' I proclaim ". The object of the proclamation follows and is expressed by four characters, a head, a character which bas been shown in my last Paper to be a phonetic représentation of the word ewe '' he says ", the determinative of " speaking", and the suffix of the aCcusative -ne. The word, therefore, expressed by thèse four characters, means *' an utterance '*, " a command ", and, upon the graphie side, is a curious and very exact parallel to the Egyptian nA.

In J. III, 3, the word ** I proclaim ", '* I order ", appears without the determinatives either of *' personality " or of " speaking '^ a fresh évidence that the determinatives could be inscrted or omitted at will. In the same Une " the High-Priest " is callod '* the K-H " (or mther H-K) of three gods : it is évident that this means that he was the '* prophet '' of the deities in question.

Above I hâve transcribed the suffix of the accusative as -ne, whereas in my last Paper I supposed it to be me. But my supposition was founded on a mistake. The ideo-

(1) l ought perhaps to speak of *' combination of characters " instead of *' word ", since the pronunciation to be assigned to a particular group of characters must of course vary with tbeir grammatical sensé. So far as l can see, words beloaging to the same root were generaily expressed by the same combinatioD of characters. the différences in their pronunciation being indicated either by suffixes, or by determinative préfixes, or even by the context alone.

graph of ^' shrine " (Y) îs not the " hieratic " form of the character dime found on the boss of Tarkondêmos, as I used to fancy ; the " hieratic " form of the latter really occurs on one of M. Schlumberger's seals (No. 14), and is quite différent. In order, therefore, to détermine the phonetic value of the suflBx, we must try another path. Now, in the language of the Vannic inscriptions, the noun has three cases, a nominative in -s, an accusative in -ni, and an oblique case terminating in a vowel. Similarly, in the languages both of Mitanni and of Arzawa, which hâve been revealed to us by the tablets of Tell el-Amama, the noun has three cases, a nominative in -s, an accusatîve in -n, and an oblique case terminating in a vowel. The Mitannian noun has also some other oblique cases which terminate in suflSxes.

As the Hittite noun has a nominative in -s, while one of the oblique cases ends in a vowel, it is reasonable to expect that the accusative also had a similar termination to that which it had in the neighbouring languages V I assume, accordingly, that by the side of the nominative in -s, there was an accusative in -ne. It could not hâve been simply in -/i, since the vowel e is sometimes written af ter the character which dénotes it.

I will now take some of the inscriptions of Jerablûs and Hamath, as given in Dr. W. Wright's Empire ofthe Hittites, translating them as far as possible, and subsequently justifying my translations, wherever I hâve not donc so before.

J. u. 1. (D. P.)* ewe ♦'-♦-we-tarkus-tarkus Er- (D. A.)* (D. P.) III. (D. P.) ♦-[*] Says . . . we-tarkus the Erian, the Hittite, by the god...

*-we beloved,