22 ANNUAL ADDRESS——PROFESSOR SAYCE. 
and the request which thy father made to the king, saying: ~ 
‘O prince, let us take counsel together, I did not counter- 
mand.” ‘The royal scribe then inquires why no acknowledg- 
ment has been made of the presents he has sent to Heypt, 
and adds that he is forwarding various other gifts, including 
a cup of silver five manehs in weight, and a second cup of 
silver three manehs in weight, as well as two other objects of 
silver ten manehs in weight. 
The most interesting, however, of all the tablets at Boulaq 
is a long and well-preserved one, which is addressed by Tar- 
khundaras, king of the country of Arzapi, to Nimutriya, or 
Amenophis III., the Pharaoh of Heypt. The heading and 
one or two technical words are in Semitic Assyrian, but the 
rest of the letter is written in an unknown language. The 
ideographs employed in it show that the introductory greetings 
are the same as those found in other letters from foreign 
potentates to the Egyptian king, and we are thus enabled to 
determine the meaning of the phoneticaliy-written words 
which occur in them. ‘Thus the possessive pronoun “ my’? is 
expressed by the affix mi, and the pronoun “ thy” by ti, tim, 
and perhaps ta, which become tw when suffixed to the word 
signifying “ trees.” These two pronouns offer a strange simi- 
larity to the corresponding pronouns in the Indo-Huropean 
languages. Bibbi is “ chariot,” and bibbid “ chariots,” while 
kalatta seems to mean “ brother.’’ Ganeda is ‘‘ exceedingly,” 
and khuman-sakh(?)-in ‘may there be peace; ’’ sakh(?)-an-ta 
being ‘‘thy peace-offering,”’ and khalu-garitsi “‘a messenger.” 
Now, Tarkhundaras is a Hittite name, like the names of 
Tarkhu-nazi and Tarkhu-lara foundon the Assyrian monuments, 
or the name of Tarkondémos on the now famous bilingual boss ; 
and the name of the country over which he ruled reminds us 
of Rezeph (2 Kings xix. 12), in North-western Mesopotamia. 
fam, therefore, tempted to see in the language of the letter 
one of the Hittite dialects which are concealed under the 
hieroglyphs of the Hittite texts. The purport of the letter 
is to describe the various presents sent by Tarkhundaras to 
the Pharaoh by the messenger, Irsappa, in return for the hand 
of the Pharaoh’s daughter, who had been given to him as a 
wife. Among the presents sent were 20 manehs of gold and 
100 shekels of lead. Mention is made in the letter of ‘the 
prince of the Hittites’? (Xhatte), who, it would appear, lived 
in the mountains of I-gaid.* 
* According to the “Travels of the Mohar” (Brugsch’s translation), the 
land of Igad’ai bordered on the country of the Hittites to the north of 
Aleppo. 
