sion of a lord of serfs, which had belonged to a royal
friend. There many excellent things were in its buildings; all its wood
was renewed. There were brought to me portions from the palace, thrice and
four times each day; beside the gifts of the royal children, always
without ceasing. There was built for me a pyramid of stone among the
pyramids. The overseer of the architects measured its ground; the chief
treasurer wrote it; the sacred masons cut the well; the chief of the
laborers on the tombs brought the bricks; all things used to make a strong
building were there used. There were given to me peasants; there were made
for me a garden, and fields in it before my mansion, as is done for the
chief royal friend. My statue was inlaid with gold, its girdle of pale
gold; his majesty caused it to be made. Such is not done to a man of low
degree.

May I be in the favor of the King until the day shall come of my death!

(_This is finished from beginning to end, as was found in the writing_.)

THE TELL AMARNA TABLETS

Translated by C. R. Conder, D.C.L., LL.D., M.R.A.S.

The Hittite Invasion Of Damascus

No. 36 B. M.--"To King _Annumuria_(127) (Amenophis III) Son of the Sun, my
Lord thus (says) this thy servant _Akizzi_.(128) Seven times at the feet
of my Lord I bow. My Lord in these my lands I am afraid. Mayst thou
protect one who is thy servant under the yoke of my Lord. From the yoke of
my Lord I do not rebel. Lo! there is fear of my foes. The people of this
thy servant are under thy yoke: this country is among thy lands: the city
_Katna_(129) is thy city: I am on the side of my Lord's rule (yoke). Lo!
the soldiers and the chariots of my Lord's government have received corn
and drink, oxen and beasts (oil and honey?), meeting the soldiers and the
chariots of my Lord's dominion (coming?) to me. And now let my Lord ask
the great men of his dominion. My Lord, all lands tremble before thy
soldiers and thy chariots. If these lands are under the dominion of my
Lord's land, and they are seizing them, let him order his soldiers and his
chariots this year, and let him take the land of _Marhasse_,(130) the
whole of it, to the yoke of my Lord, when--my Lord--the soldiers of the
slaves(131) are(132) ... For six days ago he went out into the land of
_Hu(ba)_, and truly _Aziru_ is sending them, and if in this year my Lord
does not send out the soldiers and the chariots of his government ... to
meet _Aziru