260 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. VoL. VI. 
In order: 
kukiyo Maresha danda be Kumi no to tsuta 
ellustrious Mareshah tribute under League of Band brought 
Kumi no to be Amon 
League of Band under Ammon 
In English: 
“The illustrious Mareshah brought the band of the League under 
tribute (and) Ammon under the Band of the League.” * 
This was the result of the marriage of the Hittite warrior King 
Yahdai to the Ammonite queen Zobebah, their son Yaabetz or Aahpeti 
combining the two stocks in his own person. It is worthy of note 
however, that the League was not brought under Ammon, but Ammon 
under the League, which is quite consistent with the practice of adoption 
in the League of the Iroquois in modern times. 
A few inscriptions of the Hamathite or Onondaga family, to which the 
League founder Atotarho belonged, may complete the present series. 
Mr. Forster’s 90 is from the Wady Guene, and deals with the first of the 
Hadads. 
No. XIV. keshi shishi ko do beka da ta 
be da ki ka nobe ta shi no 
In Japanese : 
gasshi seji-kota beka Adad 
united world lord Hadad 
Beda ki kanebeta shoni 
Bedad noble Kanebeta son 
“Hadad, lord of the whole earth, son of the metallurgist, the noble 
Bedad.” 
This is undoubtedly the Hadad son of Bedad of Genesis xxxvi. 35, 
36, who succeeded Husham in the range of Hor, and smote Midian in 
what afterwards became Moab. The name of his city was Avith, that 
is to say Abydos in Egypt. His father Bedad or Beda he calls the 
metallurgist, as one who was among the first to work the mines of 
Arabia Petraza. The modern Japanese name for a metallurgist is 
kane-fukt, but the ancient Hittite term for smelting was deta. The 
remarkable thing, however, about the word anedeta is that it is the 
original of the English £zzfe and French canzf, which were derived from 
the Basque ganzbet, a knife, the meaning of which in old Hittite days 
