is reign. He would,
therefore, accede 1608 B.C. Dr. Brugsch places his accession about
1600 B.C.

418 This indicates the beginning of the Syrian wars in the reign of
Amenophis III.

419 Apparently a Babylonian princess was to be sent to Egypt, and an
Egyptian princess to Babylon. The two royal families were already
allied by the marriage of Irtabi, and yet earlier of the sister of
Callimmasin (1 B. M.), even if no Egyptian princess had been granted
to the latter. The writer's son was probably Carakhardas, who
succeeded him.

420 Zalmu was a Babylonian. See the next letter.

421 Khai was still living in the reign of Amenophis IV.

422 "Siiri," "a company of merchants," as in Hebrew.

423 Or "advised this." The foes attacking Egypt were at some distance
from Babylonia, and the news only came by the envoy from Egypt.

424 "Sumatta." Compare "Shammah" (Gen. xxxvi. 13-17), a proper name,
perhaps, from the same root.

425 "Khinna tuni" would mean "inhabiting Khinna," see Khini (64 B. M.,
p. 25), but more probably Hannathon in lower Galilee, east of Accho,
is intended, now Kefr' Anan.

426 See Zatatna and Surata, kings of Accho (93 B., 95 B.), p. 249. This,
taken with the name of Neboyapiza in the latter letter, indicates a
date early in the reign of Amenophis IV.

427 Alasiya was apparently a maritime region beyond the tributary
Egyptian States, and not either in Babylonia (Shinar) nor in the
Hittite country (5 B. M.); probably it is the Elishah of the Bible
on the south shores of Asia Minor. (See my note "P. E. F. Quarterly
Statement," January, 1892, p. 44.) Elishah (Gen. x. 4; Ezek. xxvii.
7) was a maritime region. The diffusion westward of a Semitic
population in Cilicia has long been suspected to have occurred
early.

428 Semitic personal names, showing the worship of Ea and Baal in
Elishah.

429 The signs SAL US indicate "female servants."

430 "Lukki," perhaps the Lycians, or perhaps the Ligyes of Herodotus, on
the borders of Matiene (vii. 72). They appear to be the Laka who
lived in the Taurus, the Leku of Egyptian records (Brugsch, ii. pp.
44, 54, 116, 124) mentioned with other tribes of north Syria, and
with the Shakalisha--perhaps Cilicians.

431 "An-Amar-ut" ("sun-disk") I have supposed to be the name of
Khu-en