Anu-uballiṭ. Kefalon

An interesting Aramaic inscription written on fifteen glazed bricks of the wall of a cult room has been found in the Seleucid temple at Uruk-Warka.1 Two names, Anu-uballit, spelled in Aramaic 0tZ'=Rt, and Ke?phXwv, in Aramaic bSP, form the major part of the inscription, for the names are each written twice, the second time spelled out one letter to each brick. Thus, even though some letters are so damaged as to be almost illegible, there is an adequate check on the spelling. The difficulty of the inscription lies with the two single bricks that serve to connect the names. Each of these has a series of letters forming one long or two or more short words. Kriickmann says of the inscription on these problem bricks: "Zwischen diesen beiden Namen eine weitere Angabe, die noch gedeutet werden muss." He reads the first as (?) [ -] and the second as 11 (?) (?) 1 (?) ] [].2 A comparison of the two bricks, which, like the twicerepeated names, are duplicates, will clear up the reading entirely. Comparison shows that the final I is certain in both examples. In the first problem brick the two letters preceding the i are clearer than those in the second. Immediately before the " is a 1 or ' which in turn is preceded by the traces of a letter clearly unlike the 1 which is certainly before the X on the second brick. It is not a M but a r1 which can easily be confused with it in some letters of late Aramaic.3 The first brick thus concludes with '11/M. .... The second problem brick contains more letters than the first but needs confirmation from the other to establish the last few letters with certainty. With this second difficult brick the inscription can be picked up where the first brick became illegible. Before the 1r is a clear R which is pre-