1R.A.J., iv. 3S. parag. 8, Ins. of Sargon I.) This early connection must 
have resulted in the foundation of colonies on these shores, and this we find 
to be supported by the names of two of the Phoenician cities. 1. Marathus, 
situated nearly opposite Aradus, a town of considerable importance at the 
period of Alexander. Coins found on this site bear the inscription mn 
{Res. Mon. Phan., 272) ; this contains the three consonants of Martu, the 
Akkadian name of the West land, or Phoenicia and Palestine, and this would 
indicate that Marathus was an Akkadian colony on the shore of the Medi- 
terranean. 2. Usu. This city is mentioned by Assurbanipal (Smith, 
llist., p. 2S1) : Ina tayarti-ya U-su-u (>-^y fryyyjr J=y S^y^:) sa ina 
alii tiamti iddat subat su aksud, — “On my return the city of Usu, which 
on the bank of the sea had fixed its seat, I captured.” Usu is here mentioned 
in conjunction with Akku, Heb., Acco, and Zuri or Tyre, and is clearly 
intended to be a Phoenician city. In Akkadian, USU was the name of the 
setting sun, as shown by the following: j^yy^: J = ^y = ^y y 
<y*- so that ^y j:yyyt: ^y s:yyyj: Alu U-su-u would be 
“ the city of the setting sun ”, the Mediterranean being called “ the sea of the 
setting sun”; it is therefore to be supposed that this city derived its name 
from the Akkadian colonists. This city is evidently the Usous of Sanclioniathon. 
Extract from a letter from M. Chabas to the author, dated Chalons sur 
Saone, 1 April, 1S77 : 
“ In my opinion no hieroglyphic record can be surely referred to Abraham’s 
times. The peaceful visit of a family of 37 Amou in the reign of an Amenemha 
only shows that Asiatic tribes could find in Egypt a favourable reception at 
this time. It is, moreover, very likely that the Egyptian officer who introduced 
them had prevailed upon them for that visit to the Nile countries in the hope 
to obtain the favour of the Pharaoh by this unwonted exhibition. Saneha 
also seems to have been a native Amou, as was Joseph, and, like him, he 
became a high officer of the king. But the presents made to Abraham by 
Pharaoh on account of Sara'i (Gen. xii. 16) are not such as might be expected 
from a prince adorning with gold and lapis-lazuli the walls of his palace.” 
[This would look like the early days of the Hyksos. — H. G. T.] “The 
respect for marriage ties evinced by the king of Egypt belongs to the usual 
rule of morals of the Egyptians, and does not belong to any particular 
period.” 
All this agrees very well with what I have written, as docs the following, 
from the Rev. S. C. Malan, Phil, or Truth, 111 : — 
“Chabas,* a very safe and equally able and learned Egyptian scholar, places 
Abraham under the llyksds, about 1900 B.C., concluding from the similarity 
of manners at the court of Abimelech and at that of Pharaoh, that the two 
kiDgs were of the same race.” 
* Rev. Archcot, xv' anuee, 1 livr. p, 7. 
