among the invaders.

216 Arada, a city mentioned again as assisting Aziru with ships, appears
to be Aradus, the Arvad of the Bible, now Er Ruad, the island town
north of Simyra.

217 "Gula" is perhaps the town of Juneh, north of Beirut, on the way to
Gebal.

218 "Ammiya" is Amyun, north of Gebal; and "Ardata" is Ardi near the
preceding.

219 Arpad is the city close to Tennib, which is mentioned in the Bible
in several passages (2 Kings xvii. 34; xix. 13; Isa. x. 9; Jer.
xlix. 23, etc.), now Tell Erfud. It is remarkable that Aleppo is not
mentioned in this correspondence, for it is referred to in Egyptian
texts.

220 "Ribadda" (as the name is spelled in some of the letters in
syllables) may mean "child of Adonis." Compare the Chaldee "Ribah"
for "girl," in the feminine. That "Adda" was Adonis seems to be
derivable from the name "Adoram" (2 Sam. xx. 20), otherwise Adoniram
(1 Kings iv. 6).

221 "Gebal," now "Jubeil," was apparently the chief city of Phoenicia.
Its goddess Baalath is mentioned in the famous inscription of
Yehumelec (about 800 B.C.), found in the ruins of Gebal. She is also
mentioned in the "Travels of an Egyptian" (Chabas, p. 312).

222 Hamath was half-way from Aziru's country to that of Ribadda.

223 A name very like Jeremiah.

224 "Mitana," the later Matiene, Dusratta, its king, claimed to rule the
Hittites. The Amorites joined this league.

225 The region called "Casi" in the inscription of Usurtasen I (Brugsch,
"Hist.," i., p. 139) was in Upper Egypt, and the Cush of the Bible
is apparently intended--a very vague term for the southern deserts
from the Euphrates to Nubia. There were, however, Cushites also in
Babylonia. In the present case the Cassites who lived on the
Euphrates, east of the Hittites, and who were Mongols, are probably
intended.

226 Literally "boys." It seems often in these letters to be used as the
word "weled" ("a boy") is still used in Syria to mean "a fellow,"
applied often to very old men.

227 This letter shows that the war lasted several years, over which the
Gebal letters (written by three or four different scribes) extend;
that the attack on Sidon preceded the taking of Gebal; and that
Ribadda was not deceived by Amorite promises, knowing their
co-operation with the