[119] Sayce, Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archæology, 1877, v. part ii.; Bezold, Zeitschrift für Keilinschrift, 1885, pp. 191–3.
[120] Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archæology, November 1905, plate No. 11
[121] A cadastral survey, which was drawn up at this period under Uru-malik, or Urimelech, “the governor of the land of the Amorites,” would, if perfect, have given us an interesting description of Syria and Palestine in the third millennium before our era; see Thureau Dangin in the Revue Sémitigue, Avril 1897.
[122] See Heuzey, in the Revue d’Assyriologie, 1897, pp. 1–12.
[123] This was “the year when Samsu-iluna the king gave Merodach a shining mace of gold and silver, the glory of the temple; it made E-Saggil (the temple of Bel-Merodach at Babylon) shine like the stars of heaven.” The title of the year was derived from the chief event, or events, that characterized it. See Dr. Pinches, in the Quarterly Statement of the Palestine Exploration Fund, April and July 1900, pp. 269–73.
[124] See my analysis of some of the Hyksos names in the Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archæology, 1901, pp. 95–8. Since the publication of the Paper other names of the same type, like Rabu and Sakti, have come to light. The characteristic names of the Hyksos princes recur among the “Amorite” names found in the contract tablets of the Khammu-rabi period, but not later. The abbreviated forms of the names met with on the Egyptian scarabs are also found in the tablets. Indeed, the contracted form of Ya’qub-el, that is to say, Yakubu, with k instead of q, must have been transcribed from a cuneiform original.
[125] Macalister, Quarterly Statement of the Palestine Exploration Fund, January 1903, p. 28. It is the seventh stone, however, which alone has been brought from a distance—the neighbourhood of Jerusalem—all the others being of local origin (Quarterly Statement, July 1904, pp. 194–5).
[126] See Sellin, Tell Ta’annek (1904) and Eine Nachlese auf dem Tell Ta’annek in Palästina (1905).
[127] Tell Ta’annek, pp. 27–8. The cylinder is earlier than B.C. 2000.
[128] See my Patriarchal Palestine, pp. 60, 61.