254 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. [VoL. VI. 
Tockill of Yucatan. But Anub was stronger than his descendants the 
Benones or early Huns, and drove them out of Chemmis. 
Mr. Forster's 23rd may apply to any ruler of Xois, but probably 
relates to Anub. It is from the Wady Mokkateb, and is in five lines : 
No. IV. kuta ba kisa ma be kuma ki ta 
shi da shi ta. 
kishi shi ma no ku shi no kisa ma 
shiba da ki bi noto. 
shi no shi de. 
Put into intelligible form it is : 
Kutaba Kisama be Kumi Kita 
Kutaba Kisama under League Kita 
satoshita 
znstructed - 
kiza shime no Kushi no Kisama 
engraved proclamation of Kushi of Ktsama 
ezbada Kibi no to 
refuses Kibi of band 
sinetsi de 
regard from 
Here one or two words not recoverable from the Japanese are supplied 
by the Basque, a language of the same origin. These will be discussed 
in the analysis. The document reads: “Kutaba instructed the Hittite 
League under Kisama. To the engraved proclamation of Kushi, 
Kisama says no, out of regard to the band of Kibi.” This Kisama or 
Kishima must have been a man of note, since the Hittite League was 
under him, yet he had regard to the forces of Kibi or Khufu who ruled 
in Memphis, and had himself mines in Arabia Petraea as inscriptions in 
the Wady Mayhurah testify. In Kishima we must recognize the 
Husham, Chusham, or Chesham, as it is written in Genesis xxxvi. 34, 35, 
who was the third king that reigned, not over the Edomites, for as yet 
they were not but in the land that afterwards was called Edom. He 
was a Temenite or Amalekite, and Eliphaz of that nation, the friend of 
Job, may have been his son. This name perhaps, was K7z-shzme, “who 
keeps his temper.” 
He is mentioned in another inscription, Mr. Forster's 58 from Wady 
Hebran. It is very badly engraved and hard to decipher at first. 
No. V. bu shi to shidzushi me shidzushitsumeshita koi 
kishishima kumi me sh dzushi 
ta me no obe kishishi ma bu shi 
to: a tasas ba ehitata 
