THE CUNEIFORM INSCRIPTIONS OP TEL EL-AMARNA. 7 



of the same despatch reference is made to " the King of 

 Mitana," or Aram Naharaim, " the King of Tarkusi, and the 

 King of the Hittites," as well as to a certain " Yankhan, the 

 servant of the King of Yarimuta" ; but the tablet is too much 

 injured to enable us to say whether the relations of the 

 Egyptian official to these personages were friendly or other- 

 wise. Another letter from the same official mentions that 

 two ships belonged to him, and adds that certain animals had 

 been brought to him by Yapa-Addu. In a third tablet the 

 city of Sidon seems to be named, while the tablets at Berlin 

 speak of Tyre, Acre, and Megiddo. 



The territory of the Philistines, commanding as it did the 

 northern end of the road from Egypt into Palestine, naturally 

 occupied the attention of the Egyptians a good deal. One of 

 the tablets belonging to M. Bouriant, though broken at the 

 end, is very interesting in this respect. It runs thus: " To the 

 king my lord, speak thus : Thy servant Aruki (or Arudi) 

 says : (at the feet of the king) seven times seven do I prostrate 

 myself. .... When a raid was made, Milki (Melech) of the 

 sea-coast (marched) against the country of the king my lord, 

 commanding the forces of the city of Gedor (Gaturri), the 

 forces of the city of Gath (Gimti), and the forces of the city 

 of Keilah (Kilti). They seized the country of the city of 

 Eabbah (Rubute) dependent on the country of the king, 

 belonging to the 'Confederates' (Wiabiri}. And again he 

 destroyed entirely the city of the land of Ururusi, the city 

 of the god Uras, whose name (there) is Marru (Marnas), the 

 city of the king, dependent on the locality of the men of 

 Keilah, and twelve cities of my king/' Two small tablets 

 in the Boulaq Museum, both unfortunately broken in half, 

 give us further information about the affairs of Southern 

 Palestine. One of them may be translated as follows: "To 

 the king my lord, my gods, my Sun-god, by letter I speak, 

 even Su-arda-ka, thy servant, the dust of thy feet. At the 

 feet of the king my lord, my gods, my Sun-god, seven times 

 seven do I prostrate myself. The king of ... set himself 

 to make war. In the city of Keilah (Kelti) he made war 

 against thee for the third time ; a complaint was brought to 

 myself. My city that belongs to me adhered (?) to me. 

 Ebed-tob sent to the men of Keilah. He sent fourteen pieces 

 of silver, and they marched against my rear, and they overran 

 the domains of the king my lord. Keilah, my city, did Ebed- 

 dhabba remove from my jurisdiction. The pleasure-park (?) 

 of the king my lord, and the fortress of Baal-nathan, and the 

 fortress of Hamor (the Amorite) he removed from his pre- 

 sence and his justice. Lab-api, the halting in speech, occu- 



