'Akrith, eight miles east of Danjaan. It has
been mentioned as taken by Aziru, in Yapaaddu's letter (128 B.).
Perhaps the attack was from the east; and the King of Hazor seems to
have joined the Hittites (see 99 B.).

295 Edagama has been mentioned as "Aidugama" in Akizzi's letter from
Katna, which was east of Neboyapiza's city Cumidi (Kamid). See B. M.
37.

296 In the former letters (B. M. 31, B. 99) Abimelec has spoken of the
Paka as distinct from himself. Perhaps the Egyptian residents
withdrew when the troops were withdrawn.

297 Irib is probably 'Arab Salim, fourteen miles southeast of Sidon, on
the highest part of the mountains. It stands on a precipice 400 feet
above the gorge of the Zahrany River (Robinson, "Later Bib. Res.,"
p. 47), and was a stronghold.

298 Aziru's allies from Arvad no doubt attacked Tyre by sea.

299 Dr. Bezold has remarked that want of water was always the weakness
of Tyre. In the reign of Rameses II the Egyptian traveller (Chabas,
p. 313) speaks of water sent to the island of Tyre in boats. Tyre is
called by him the city of "two ports," one being on the north,
called the Sidonian, and one on the south, called the Egyptian.

300 This letter agrees with others preceding. Neboyapiza's town Kamid,
in Lebanon, was about sixty miles to the northeast of Accho, and
Ziza was perhaps his sister or daughter, married to the king of an
adjoining kingdom. The soldiers to be sent to Megiddo would obtain
news, perhaps, of his fate, from a force on its way to Yabis, in
Bashan, which his enemies reached after taking Damascus. Makdani is
probably the Megiddo of the Bible, on the way to Bashan, at the
great ruin of Mujedd'a, near Beisan. The situation agrees with that
of the city of Makta, or Megiddo, mentioned by the Egyptian
traveller near the Jordan fords (Chabas, p. 207). The Magid-- of the
previous passage is probably another spelling of the same name. The
lady seems to have intended to go there with a guard, and perhaps to
obtain a detachment to go to Kamid. In the lists of Thothmes III,
Megiddo (Makdi) stands second, after Kadesh of the Hittites; and it
was at Megiddo that the chief victory of Thothmes was won. It was
then already a fortress which stood a siege, and was the key to the
road from Accho to Damas