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M. Pognon was the first to start the theory that its kings were not purely Babylonian, but were of either Arab or Aramaean extraction, and he based his theory on a study of the forms of the names which some of them bore. The name of Samsu-imna, for instance, means "the sun is our god," but the form of the words of which the name is composed betray foreign influence.
As soon as the monk had departed, carrying with him the joy of having won over the masses to his cause, Dagobert, Tronc, and Balafille whistled to their wives, Amelia, Queenie, and Matilda, who were waiting in the street for the signal, and all six holding each other's hands, danced around the bag, singing: J'ai du bon pognon, Tu n'l'auras pas Chatillon! Hou! Hou! la calotte!
Besides Delitzsch, however, there are others, as Pognon, Jäger, Guyard, McCurdy and Brinton, who side with Halévy. See now Dr. Amer. Philos.
Attention was directed a few years ago by Pognon and Sayce to the fact that the name of Hammurabi, as well as the names of four kings that preceded him, and of a number that followed, are not Babylonian.
The reading za-am-mu-ku is found, IR. 67, col. i. l. 34. rêsh shatti. See p. 681. Inscription G, ib., and Inscription D, col. ii. ll. 1-9. See also p. 59. See above, ib. See, e.g., Pognon Wadi Brissa, col. ix. ll. 12-18. This follows from a passage in Nebuchadnezzar's Inscription, IR. 54, col. ii. l. 57. See p. 654. Signifying 'may the enemy not wax strong.
And they ordered a salad-bowl full of warm wine. In the evening all six went through the street from stall to stall singing their new song. The song became popular, for the detectives reported that every day showed an increase of the number of workpeople who sang through the slums: J'ai du bon pognon; Tu n'l'auras pas Chatillon! Hou! Hou! la calotte!
Knudtzon, and the long inscription which Nebuchadnezzar II cut on the rocks at Wadi Brissa in the Lebanon, formerly published by M. Pognon, has been recopied by Dr. Weissbach.
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