[446] This is an Amorite name, Ammi-anshi. It shows that the Amorites were already in this region. Later the Hebrews found Sihon, the Amorite here; see Num. 21:21, ff. and Deut. 1:4, ff.
[447] The Egyptian name for the higher parts of Palestine and Syria. The Egyptians had no l; they always used r instead. The name is identical with the Hebrew Lotan, Gen. 36:20, of which Lot is a shorter form.
[448] Perhaps the same name as Aiah (Ajah) of Gen. 36:24 and 1 Chron. 1:40.
[449] From Cuneiform Texts, &c., in the British Museum, XIII, 42; cf. also King, Chronicles of Early Babylonian Kings, II, 87, ff.
[450] Another tablet reads “a father I had not.”
[451] A name for the Semitic peoples of Babylonia.
[452] An island in the Persian Gulf.
[453] Taken from Breasted’s Ancient Records, Egypt, III, p. 264, ff.
[454] That is, the foreign nations.
[455] That is, Lybia, which lay to the west of the Egyptian Delta.