276 THE SHEPHERD KINGS OF EGYPT. 



in Shittim, on tlie borders of the Dead Sea, but they also formed the 

 principal part of the confederacy on tbe coast of the Mediterranean 

 known as the Phili-Sheth or Philistines. When the descendants of 

 Jehaleleel were driven out of Egypt, they must have rem.oved at first 

 to their origmal seat at Elusa or Gerar, and thence have spread 

 northward to Ziph. The family of Tiria, however, would seem to 

 have crossed the Dead Sea, and between the Nahaliel and the Zerka — 

 not far probably from Callirhoe, which, with its hot springs near at 

 hand, gives us the true Homeric locality — founded the city of Ilium. 

 In another jaaper I hope to be able to prove conclusively that here 

 the long Trojan war was fought, during the time of Israel's captivity 

 in Egypt. When the Caphtorim or Dorians, descendants of the 

 Horite Achumai, came out of Egypt, they drove up the descendants- 

 of Achuzam into the region about Carmel, where the Etamites in the 

 line of Jezreel were already established. The families of Achuzam 

 occupied Accho, Achzib, Achshaph and other places on the coast, 

 even in the days of the Judges of Israel, the Caphtorim dwelling in 

 Dor, Endor, and other towns south of Megiddo, a Hycsos region. 

 It was from Palestine, then, and not from Asia Minor, Greece or 

 Greek Islands, or Italy, that the Achaeans and Laconians, Mysians 

 and Dardanians, Cretans, Sardinians and others, whose record is 

 found on the monuments of the Thothmes and Pameses, invaded the 

 land of the Pharaohs, together with Heth and Sheth, Moab and 

 Ammon.*" These were the families of Ashchur, or the Shej)herds 



** It wil] be observed that while I have found the descendants of Ammon and Midian in 

 relation to the Shepherd kings, Moab's family has not been noticed. As Ammon's son Coz 

 married a sister of Ziph, the son of Jehaleleel, it is not improbable that Mesha, called the 

 father of Ziph, may be a son ot Moab, seeing also that the name Mesha remained in the royal 

 line of the Moabites. In Moab we must, I think, find the Egyptian Hapi Mou, which is an 

 inversion of his name. He may also be the Arab Moafer. answering to the Moabrisi of the 

 Egyptian monuments, who is united with Nooman or Ammon in the lists of Arabian monarchs. 

 I would also be disposed to see in him the famous Amphion of Thebes. He certainly is the 

 Thessalian Mopsus ; and Mopsopia, an old name of Attica, with Mopsium in Thessaly and 

 Mopsuestia in Cilicia, exhibit the progress of his descendants. Ampyx, Ampycus and 

 Amphictyon, like the, Egyptian Gnephactus, are probably names of Moab. He may be Noub, 

 who married Sate or a daughter of A.chashtari and sister of Beor, whose son Bela, fleeing to his 

 brother-in-law's dominions, became the Baal Peor of Moab. The fable of Niobe undoubtedly 

 connects with the Moabite line. The following exhibits the probable connection of the 

 Abrahamic family with the Ashohurites : Ashchur. 



Achuzam. Temeni. Aohashtari. 



I I I . , 



Keturah. Jehaleleel Ammon. Beor. Sate = Moab. 



„ I II I I 



ZiMEAN, &c. Zipliah = Coz. Elon. Bela. Ishmael. 



I ■ I 



Adah = Esau = Mahalath. 

 I 

 Eliphaz. 



The Ishmaelites connect, at least in Nebaioth, with the family of Jerahmeel, and Esau had 

 other, Horite and Ishmaelite, alliances in addition to that with the family of Temeni. 



