The city of Jerusalem

by C. R. Conder

[69] Amarna Tablets, No. 102, Berlin Collection: “tarayamu ... amili ’Abiri.”

[70] Sarru b’elu.

[71] Pitati, an Egyptian word, either from pet, “bow,” or pet, “foot”—bowmen, or otherwise infantry, and not a chariot force such as is often mentioned in the plains, in the Amarna letters.

[72] No. 106, Berlin Collection.

[73] Baalah = Kirjath-jearim (Josh. xv. 10), near which was Rabbah (ver. 60). See Josh ix. 17.

[74] No. 104, Berlin Collection.

[75] ina Bit-amilla-ma.

[76] No. 103, Berlin Collection, line 54 on back of the tablet.

[77] No. 199, Berlin Collection.

[78] ’Ati, see Isa. x. 28, = Ai.