230 THE SHEPHERD KINGS OF EGYPT. 



Yetnan, tlie land saci^ed to Husi, a name aftei'wards transferred to 

 Cyprus, gives a probable Assyiian notice of Etlman, tlie youngest 

 son of Helab. Sucli forms as Assliur-dayan can provisionally be 

 regarded as arising from a combination of his name witb that of his 

 father. 



Assyria, Mesopotamia and even Babylonia are full of geographical 

 names which refer to Ashchur and his family, such as Sekherieh 

 (Ashchur), Satra (Achashtari), Alalalis (Jehaleleel), Masius (Mesha, 

 father of Ziph), Zab and Sapha (Ziph), Zagora (Zochar), which go 

 far to prove that these lands were once held, at least in part, by the 

 descendants of the father of Tekoa. 



Phoenicia, Carthage, &c." — We have already had before us Isiris 

 or Mizor, who was the father of Taautus according to Sanchoniatho. 

 He is also the Chusorus, whom Mochus makes the first ruler of the 

 world. The Diosciiri, who went to sea at Mt. Casius, are the A^h- 

 churi. Aser, the Punic god, is the same person, as are pei-haps 

 Macer, the Punic Hercules, an,d Bochoris, the deity of the Moors. 

 Utica is a form of Tekoa. Sydyk and Typhon belong to the line of 

 Mizor. The Assyrian lake, which was the home of the family before 

 it was transferred to Phoenicia, was, as Kenrick and others have 

 cleai-ly shown, the Dead Sea, the region about which is immistakably 

 the scene of Sanchoniatho's history. In Tyndaiis of Marmarica we 

 find a settlement of those Tyndaridse, who first dwelt in the Egyptian 

 Tentyra, of which Peschir Teuthur was the god. 



Achuzam has been already identified with Taautus. As such he 

 is Esmun and Casmillus, names which approach more closely to the 

 original. He rightly connects with the Cabiri, named after his 

 brother Hepher, as well as with the Dioscuri, bearing his father's 

 name. He may be Sanchoniatho's Usous or Moloch Mars, answering 

 to the Arab Ais, who is Dhu el Karnaim — a title, however, which I 

 believe belongs to his brother Achashtari, lord of Ashtaroth Kar- 

 naim. The Phoenician name Ashmunazar unites him with his 

 father, and answers in form to Zereth-Shachar. Casius, whence the 

 Diosctiri went to sea, has already been shown to be a corruption or 

 partial rendering of the name of Achuzam, who is also commemorated 

 by the Ahsi, Axius or Typhon river, and the adjoining region of 



1* For the facts recorded under this head see Kenrick's Phoenicia, Movers' Die Phcenizier, 

 Davies' Carthage, Fragments of Sauchomatho, &o. 



