been published on the subject. In 1933, N. D. Mironov published an article on the same subject in Acta Orientalia: 'Aryan Vestiges in the Near East of the Second Millenary B. c.' But, according to the best experts, his method is very unsatisfactory. Mironov had in his list some 27 names which certainly or very probably are Indo-Aryan; but he had also a great many Egyptian, Semitic, and miscellaneous names, which are certainly nonAryan. Since that time great progress has been made in the deciphering of the Mitanni, Nuzi and Syrian documents; and as exhaustive as now possible a list of names of kings and nobles suspected to be of Indo-Aryan origin has been prepared by Roger T. O'Callaghan and W. F. Albright.1 The list contains 81 names (13 from the Mitanni, 23 from the Nuzi, and 45 from the Syrian documents). Among the names of this list, a few have already been explained, and correctly explained, by Mironov or his predecessors; but, in many cases, I do not accept the etymology he has suggested. Many of the etymologies I am proposing, or accepting, are hypothetical; but some of them seem absolutely certain. For instance: