s of the Adhem and the Diyaleh. Oppert proposes to
recognise in these Guti "the ancestors of the Goths, who,
fifteen hundred years ago, pushed forward to the Russia of
the present day: we find," (he adds), "in this passage and in
others, some of which go back to the third millennium before
the Christian era, the earliest mention of the Germanic
races."

*** The people of Lulumo-Lullubi have been pointed out as
living to the east of the Lesser Zab by Schrader; their
exact position, together with that of Mount Padir-Batir in
whose neighbourhood they were, has been determined by Pere
Scheil.

Budilu carried his arms against these tribes, and obtained successes
over the Turuki and the Nigimkhi, the princes of the Guti and the Shuti,
as well as over the Akhlami and the Iauri.*

* The Shutu or Shuti, who are always found in connection
with the Guti, appear to have been the inhabitants of the
lower mountain slopes which separate the basin of the Tigris
with the regions of Elam, to the south of Turnat. The
Akhlame were neighbours of the Shuti and the Guti; they were
settled partly in the Mesopotamian plain and partly in the
neighbourhood of Turnat. The territory of the Iauri is not
known; the Turuki and the Nigimkhi were probably situated
somewhere to the east of the Great Zab: in the same way that
Oppert connects the Goths with the Guti, so Hommel sees in
the Turuki the Turks of a very early date.

The chiefs of the Lulume had long resisted the attacks of their
neighbours, and one of them, Anu-banini, had engraved on the rocks
overhanging the road not far from the village of Seripul, a bas-relief
celebrating his own victories. He figures on it in full armour, wearing
a turban on his head, and treading underfoot a fallen foe, while Ishtar
of Arbeles leads towards him a long file of naked captives, bound
ready for sacrifice. The resistance of the Lulume was, however, finally
overcome by Ramman-nirari, the son of Budilu; he strengthened the
suzerainty gained by his predecessor over the Guti, the Cossaeans, and
the Shubarti, and he employed the spoil taken from them in beautifying
the temple of Assur. He had occasion to spend some time in the regions
of the Upper Tigris, warring against the Shubari, and a fine bronze
sabre belonging to him has been found near Diarbekir, among the ruins of
the ancient Amidi, where, no