_ki-mu-ta_ _ki-zu-ta_ _ki-ni-ta_ (with me) (with thee) (with him) Plur.

_ki mi-ta_ _ki zu-nini-ta_ _ki-nini-ta_ (with us) (with you) (with them) N.B .-- The formation of the second person plural deserves attention.

The word _zu-nini_ is, clearly, composed of the two elements, _zu,_ "thee," and _nini,_ "them"-- so that instead of having a word for "you," the Chaldaeans employed for it the periphrasis "thee-them"! There is, I believe, no known language which presents a parallel anomaly.
Such are the chief known features of this interesting but difficult form of speech.

A specimen may now be given of the mode in which it was written.

Among the earliests of the monuments hitherto discovered are a set of bricks bearing the following cuneiform inscription [PLATE VI., Fig.