JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY. FIFTEENTH VOLUME. 1897 NEW HAVEN: FOR THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY, MDCCCXCIII, CONTENTS FIFTEENTH VOLUME. ART. ITIAMAT. BY GEORGE A. BARTON, of Harvard University ART. II.— ARABIC PROVERBS AND PROVERBIAL PHRASES. Collected, Trans- lated, and Annotated by JAMES RICHARD JEWETT, Instructor in Brown University, Providence, R. I... ART. III. THE LETTER OF HOLY SUNDAY; also, THE COMPUTATION OF THE SICK: Syriac Text and Translation. By Professor ISAAC H. HALL, of CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE INTERPRETATION OF THE VEDA. By MAU- RICE BLOOMFIELD, Professor in Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. Page 143 ART. V. THE Divinities of the GATHAS. BY MORTON W. EASTON, Profes- sor of Comparative Philology in the University of Pennsylvania, Phila. 189 ART. VI.—THE AUÇANASADBHUTANI; Text and Translation. By JAMES TAFT HATFIELD, Professor in Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois... 207 ART. VII.-WHERE WAS ZOROASTER'S NATIVE PLACE? By A. V. WILLIAMS JACKSON, Professor in Columbia College, New York City. ART. VIII.—EXTRACTS FROM THE JAIMINIYA-BRAHMANA AND UPANISHAD- BRAHMANA, parallel to passages of the Catapatha-Brāhmaṇa and Chan- dogya-Upanishad. By Dr. HANNS OERTEL, Instructor in Yale Univer- PROBLEMATIC PASSAGES IN THE RIG-VEDA. BY EDWARD WASH- BURN HOPKINS, Professor in Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa ART. X.-A SYRIAC CHARM. By Rev. WILLIS HATFIELD HARRIS, of Harvard ART. XII.-Two ASSYRIAN LETTERS. By Dr. CHRISTOPHER JOHNSTON, In- structor in Semitic Languages, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. 311 iv Page Proceedings of the Society, May, 1890; October, 1890; Communications (in alphabetical order of authors). C. ADLER, Notes on the Johns Hopkins and Abbott collections of Egyp- Christopher Columbus in Oriental literature.. W. M.-ARNOLT, Schrader's Keilinschriftliche Bibliothek, Vol. ii. G. A. BARTON, Tiamat (abstract) Esarhaddon's account of the restoration of Ishtar's temple i-ccxxx cxcvi cxcix C. W. BENTON, Nasif-el-Yaziji's Book of the Meeting of the two Seas.. cxix cix clxxiii xxiii 64 cxxviii cviii lxv lxvi Announcement of a Vedic concordance of padas and L. BRADNER, JR., The sentence in the Tayor inscription of Sennacherib H. COLLITZ, On the existence of primitive Aryan š.. E. DICKERMAN, Etymology and synonyms of pyramid. C. J. ELOFSON, Position of the adjective in Assyrian historical inscrip tions... C. J. GOODWIN, The Skandayaga, text and translation. R. J. H. GOTTHEIL, An Alhambra vase now in New York (with a plate) Note on an Alhambra vase. Dawidh bar Paulos, a Syriac grammarian. L. GROUT, The Tonga as a standard Bantu language.. I. H. HALL, A recently discovered bronze statuette now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York A new inscription at the Metropolitan Museum. W. R. HARPER, Notes on historical Assyrian syntax. lxxiv E. W. HOPKINS, Note on the development of the character of Yama. xciv clxxv A scarab seal with Cypriote inscription at do. R. F. HARPER, Abel and Winckler's Assyriau chrestomathy. Kraetzschmar's views as to the a-vowel in an overhang- Page H. HYVERNAT, Work of the Popes for the advancement of Oriental learning cliii แ A. V. W. JACKSON, Skt. hrade'cakṣus, RV. x. 95. 6 On Avestan molten metal' Notes on Zoroaster and the Zartusht-Namah M. JASTROW, JR., On the founding of Carthage. C. F. KENT, Annexion in Assyrian.. C. R. LANMAN, Mortuary urns.. D. G. LYON, Peiser's Keilschriftliche Actenstücke xviii ci H. OERTEL, Meaning of sunṛță in the Rig-Veda.. J. ORNE, Two Arabic manuscripts in the Harvard Semitic museum .... 66 J. P. PETERS, On the Babylonian expedition of the University of Penn sylvania J. D. PRINCE, On the writing on the wall at Belshazzar's feast. G. A. REISNER, The construct case in Assyrian..... H. C. TOLMAN, Syntax of Old-Persian cuneiform inscriptions W. D. WHITNEY, On Böhtlingk's Upanishads. 64 Narrative use of perfect and imperfect in the Brahma- J. K. WIGHT, The cosmogonies of India and China... W. C. WINSLOW, The sculptures and inscriptions of Beni Hasan.. cxlvi clxxxii cxxi CXCV с XV 1 lxxxv clx clxxi lxiv ccvii Additions to the Library, May, 1889-June, 1891 ...... cxxxiii August, 1891-March, 1893 .... ccxxxi 66 List of Members, March, 1893 CORRIGENDA. Page 3, line 14, omit (?). Page 4, Note, line 3, read gim-ri-šu-un. Page 6, line 24, for dibba read "garment.” Page 12, line 14, for "1. 13" read "1. 14." Page 21, line 26, for "3." read "4." ccxl |