282 The King of Babylon refused to help the Canaanites in the reign of
Amenophis III.

283 The younger brother was not the one left in charge.

284 "Buruzizi" probably Beit Ziza, east of Batrun, in the range which
runs out to the great pass of Ras Shakkah. Batrun was perhaps still
holding out, and the town was a refuge high up in the wild
mountains. "Buru" means "well"; and "Beit" "house" of Ziza.

285 As regards the final outcome of these wars in the north we obtain
light from the letters of Dusratta, King of Mitani. He was a younger
man than Amenophis III, and his sister married the said King of
Egypt. His daughter Tadukhipa married Amenophis IV, and there were
friendly relations with Egypt in the latter as well as in the former
reign. In his Hittite letter (27 B.) Dusratta speaks of the
boundaries of a region which seems to have been conceded to him as
his daughter's wedding-gift. He calls himself "Great Chief of the
Hittites," and the border was to run to Harran, Chalcis (south of
Aleppo), and the "Phoenician West." Thus Dusratta, who says in
another letter (apparently his first) that he has conquered the
Hittites, would seem to have swallowed up the Hittite King of
Mer'ash and part, if not the whole, of Aziru's country; and the
Mongol populations were thus to be ruled from Armenia, which was
much nearer than Egypt. What became of the King of Kadesh these
letters do not say; but he was independent in later times, when Seti
I went up "to conquer the city of Kadesh in the land of the
Amorites" (Brugsch, Hist., ii. p. 15), and Kadesh was taken by
Rameses II, the successor of Seti I, after which a commercial treaty
was made with Kheta Sar, the King of Kadesh, whose daughter Rameses
II married. There was thus, perhaps, Hittite blood in the veins of
the Pharaohs of the nineteenth dynasty. In the treaty papyrus (see
Chabas' "Voyage," p. 336), it is mentioned that the same terms--of
equality--had existed in the time of the writer's father and
grandfather that were claimed of Rameses II, and that war had
occurred later. This seems to show that Kadesh was independent
shortly after the time of the rebellion detailed in the Tell Amarna
letters. The relations with the Hittites were still friendly in the
reign of Rameses III, whe