haps wrote to Amenophis III. "Nukhasse" Dr.
Bezold supposes to be the "Anaugas" of the records of Thothmes III,
an unknown region in Syria. I have supposed it to be Merash, reading
"Markhasse."

410 This king, unknown before, was probably older than Amenophis III,
who married his daughter, who was marriageable before the writer's
father died.

411 As in the previous case (82 B.). See p. 236.

412 Probably Irtabi (1 B.).

413 The month names are written in ideograms of Accadian origin.

414 This King's date has been placed as late as 1400 B.C., but the dates
are not accurately fixed. His daughter appears to have married
Burnaburias of Babylon before 1450 B.C. ("Trans. Soc. Bib. Arch." i.
p. 69). His predecessor, Buzur, Assur, had settled the Assyrian
boundary with Burnaburias. (Ibid., p. 68.)

415 This interruption (see also the letter from Chaldea, 18 B., in the
later reign of Horus) was probably due to the Syrian revolt (compare
23 B., 7 B., and 8 B.), showing that the power of Egypt, broken in
1480 B.C., was still unrecognized as late as 1400 B.C., which brings
us near the time when Rameses II recognized the independence of the
Hittites, about 1360 B.C. (See p. 241.)

416 Supposed to have reigned about 1550 B.C.: presents from Assyria were
received by Thothmes III even earlier (Brugsch, "Hist. Egypt," i. p.
328), including chariots and cedar-wood.

417 Burnaburias appears to have reigned about 1450 B.C., or a little
later. As regards the dates of Egyptian kings, they rest on the
statement (see Brugsch, "Hist.," i. p. 395) that the star Sothis
rose on the 28th of Epiphi, in the reign of Thothmes III, and on the
date of the new moon of various months in the same reign. The
Egyptian year was a year of 365 days, and therefore vague as
regarded the sidereal year. The risings of Sothis (Sirius) are
recorded ("Decree of Canopus") in the later Ptolemaic times as they
occurred in connection with the Egyptian year, changing one day
every four solar years; and the Rosetta stone fixes the calendar.
From the rising of Sothis we should obtain a date about 1598 B.C. as
falling in the reign of Thothmes III; and from the coincidences of
the new moon we should obtain 1574 B.C. as the thirty-fourth and
1585 B.C. as the twenty-third years of h