[60]. See my Higher Criticism and the Verdict of the Monuments, p. 41; D. H. Müller, Epigraphische Denkmäler aus Arabien, p. 8 (the Minæan inscriptions of El-Oela, south of Teima, are given pp. 21 sqq.).
[61]. Philo Byblius in his work ‘On the Jews,’ as quoted by Eusebius (Præp. Evang. i, 10), stated that ‘Kronos, whom the Phœnicians call El, the king of the country, who was afterwards deified in the planet Saturn, had an only son by a nymph of the country called Anôbret. This son was named Yeud, which signifies in Phœnician an only son. His country having fallen into distress during a war, Kronos clothed his son in royal robes, raised an altar, and sacrificed him upon it.’ In his account of the Phœnician mythology, the same writer describes the sacrifice a little differently: ‘A plague and a famine having occurred, Kronos sacrificed his only son to his father the Sky, circumcised himself, and obliged his companions to do the same’ (Euseb. l. c.).
[62]. Records of the Past, new ser., v. p. 49, No. 81.
[63]. L’Imagerie Phénicienne (1880), p. 105.
[64]. Which may also be read ayyal or ‘hart.’
[65]. See my Races of the Old Testament, pp. 130 sq.
[66]. See my Races of the Old Testament, pp. 127, 132, where a photograph is given of Professor Flinders Petrie’s cast of the Ashkelon profiles.
[67]. Black Obelisk, lines 60, 61, compared with Monolith Inscription, ll. 90-95.
[68]. One feddan or acre contained 1800 sari (Reisner in the Zeitschrift für Assyriologie, xi. 4, p. 421). The area was not great, though it was calculated that not more than 120 sari could be ploughed by a single ox.
[69]. Published by Strassmaier in the Transactions of the Fifth Oriental Congress, ii. 1, Append. pp. 14, 15; a translation will be found in Peiser’s Altbabylonische Urkunden in the Keilschriftliche Bibliothek, iv. p. 7. The tablet was found at Tel-Sifr.