hoenician coins and in the
Bible, is used in its strict sense as a geographical term for the
"lowlands" of Phoenicia and Philistia.

204 "Pisyari" appears to be a Hittite name, like the "Pisiris" of an
Assyrian inscription (Schrader), being the Mongol "bisir" ("rich"),
with the indefinite nominative in s, which marks the Hittite as a
non-Semitic tongue. The other names are also apparently non-Semitic,
and may refer to Hittites.

205 "Pabahaa" is perhaps the "Papaa," conquered by Thothmes III (Karnak
List, No. 296), which was somewhere in North Syria, not far from
Tunip. The wickedness of this chief is said to have caused the war.

206 Gutium, mentioned in Assyrian texts, was a country on the northeast,
near the Caucasus. It has been compared with the word "Goim," for
"Gentiles," in Hebrew. Perhaps "Jebel Judi" ("Ararat") is intended,
being Dusratta's country allied to Egypt.

207 Probably 'Arkah, a well-known Phoenician city north of Tripoli, but
south of Simyra (Gen. x. 17). Aziru killed its king (91 B.).

208 "Yapaaddu" ("Adonis is beautiful") is often mentioned again. He (see
61 B.) fell into the hands of Aziru, and seems to have been a king
of one of the cities near Simyra, apparently Sigata. This letter was
probably written about the time of the siege of Tyre, at a late
period in the war.

209 Ugariti is mentioned in a letter from Tyre (B. M. 30) in a
connection which shows that it was the present Akrith, between Tyre
and Accho.

210 "Sigata" appears to be Shakkah, north of the great pass of Shakkah
(Theouprosopon), where the King of Gebal was defeated by Aziru.

211 "Ambi" is now 'Aba, immediately east of Shakkah.

212 Simyra was on the low hills above the sea-plains, by the river
Eleutherus.

213 The last words explain how the letter got to Egypt.

214 These ships of the men of Misi are mentioned by Ribadda as failing
in an attempt to assist him. We may, perhaps, understand Egyptian
ships, and compare the Egyptian name "Mesti" applied to part of the
Delta.

215 From Dusratta's great Hittite letter (27 B.) it appears that the
King of the Minyans, whose country was called Mitani, west of Lake
Van, in Armenia, claimed to be King of all the Hittites; and this is
what appears to be here intended. In other letters he is mentioned