'NOTES ON THE ISLANDS OF BAHRAIN AND ANTIQUITIES BY CAPTAIN E. L. DURAND, 1 ASSISTANT RESIDENT, PERSIAN GULF.' [‎24v] (11/32)

57 Qoia" further than he does* Mr. Porster says "that this name of Cadmus
0 can be traced through Kademah or Kadmas, " hich
« Parti, Section vi. latter form, he states, to be a truly Arabic idiomatic
one. and quotes it, through Melo. through Eusebius, and Alexander Polyhistor
who gives the twelve sons of Abraham (Ishmael) by
Passing the allusion to Herodotus. ^. g ^ T gp^ ari wife, and again that the only "direct
notice of the Arabs as among the early peoplers of Europe to be found among
the classic writers occurs in Strabo, " who in his account of the peop mg o
Euboea off the coast of Boeotia reckons as the first inhabitants a colony 01
Arabs, who had accompanied Cadmus into Greece." This statement carries
within itself marks of its authenticity, since all the circumstances 01 the
case attest the correctness of Strabo's information, &c., &c. ^ lie then continues,
that Cadmus is simply the Greek form of Kedemah, w r hich is rendered Kedinah
in the LXX, and Cadmos by Josephius, and the Ishmaelite tribe of Kedemah,
we have already seen, waS seated in the very locality assigned on independent
grounds as the cradle of the Phoenician Cadmus, the namesake, and it may justly
be inferred the youngest son of Ishmael.
58. He further goes on to clench his argument with an Arab tradition, also
proving the national consanguinity between the Peleponesians and Boeotians
and the Arabs (Zebeydi Ishmaelites).
59. To return, however, without being sure that Cyrus ruled these islands,
we know that Darius did as they formed a part of his 14th satrapy, and were
used by him as a penal settlement (the jockey King could scarcely have invent
ed a better).
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60. The stone may therefore well belong to this period of Persian rule, or
again it may simply have found its way dowai from Assyria. The latter being the
most likely, for the cuneiform seems to me to differ from the Achsemenian that
I have seen, and the more so that no signs are used under that form of writing.
Of course an expert would settle the question at once.f
61. With regard to the tumuli, we are standing on surer ground and cannot
.go far wrong. Whether some of these may not be the remains of the Phoenician
temples noticed by Androsthenes it would be hard to say. Without doubt those
nearest to the village of Ali have had buildings on the top of them formed
of shaped blocks of sandstone. I cannot mention all the places on these
islands which probably contain buried buildings, but content myself with
drawing attention to one or two of the most prominent.
62. On leaving the town of Manameh, the western road passing through
lines (^f date gardens, lands one in the Willayet-i-Kadim or Bilad-i-Kadim the
ancient city, where, probably from time immemorial, building has been piled
upon building; be this how it may, we go a little further and find ourselves near
t Madresseh-i-Abu-Zeidan already the mosque of the minarets.f Here several mounds
^r k r; d r^ t k " dm ' rt [ isin .s white and shrubless attract attention, but
w , . xi -n , leaving these again and inclining to the north of
to its rr g Portu g u ese fort on the sea-board still massive and imposin-
no Lrn L " lme f 0f h 'r h Sandl ' i118 ' cllaiued to g ethe '- ^4 tbo
rthun sea, at the distance of a mile or so from the beach near the vilhcpc
of Barboora and Slurebi. These I walked over, but found only one outlyfng
Of palace the
Bimugas.
Tuzak, God, the, of, servant
Aturian 1 the
There » one letter about which Sir H. Rawlinson is not quite satisfied viz -
XII0'
\ The writing is Hyeratic Babylonian
V ' ^ I I I I cuneiform - Riraugas was not a Kin^
\ I 1 / probably an Arab Sheikh.
No explanation is offered as to the use to which sii ( .b
may possibly have been merely a stamp for bricks or it m^v K Z™ . pUt Ifc
the tomb of this servant of the God Tuzak.—E. L. D. m or 0} *