Note 355 — Chapter VI · THE PROTO-SIDERIC OR EARLY IRON AGE OF WEAPONS.

M. F. Lenormant (‘Les Noms d’Airain et du Cuivre dans les deux Langues ... de la Chaldée et de l’Assyrie, Trans. Soc. Bibl. Archæology, vi. part 2) renders parzillu, iron; abar, lead; shiparru (Arab. صفر, brass), bronze; anaku, tin; eru or erudu, copper or bronze (Arab. ايار, copper or brass); kashpu, silver; and kurashu, gold. The learned author discovers in the cuneiforms repeated mention of the ‘ships of Mákan’ and the Kur Makannata (mountain of Makná), which he translates ‘Pays de Mákan’: finding it a great centre of copper, he is inclined to confound it with the so-called Sinaitic Peninsula. I have only to refer readers to ‘Makná’ in my three volumes on the Land of Midian.