Note 11 — Chapter III

It should be noted that the name of the Babylonian city now usually rendered as Isin should be more correctly read as Nîsin. This is suggested by two forms of the name, which Prof. Clay tells me occur on two tablets in the Yale Babylonian Collection, Nos. 5415 and 5417; in the date-formulæ upon these tablets the city's name is written as Ni-i-si-in (KI) and Ni-i-si-in-na (KI). Eventually the initial was dropped; cf. p. 254, n. 2.