[456] That is, the Hittites.
[457] “The Canaan” refers to the land of Canaan, probably here Phœnicia.
[458] Yenoam was a town situated at the extreme north of Galilee, just at the end of the valley between the two ranges of the Lebanon mountains.
[459] Translated from the cuneiform text in Harper’s Code of Hammurabi, and Ungnad’s Keilschrifttexte der Gesetze Hammurabis.
[460] The mana consisted of sixty shekels. Tn English it is corrupted to mina.
[461] The nature of these officials is in doubt. Scheil and others think the first a recruiting-officer; Delitzsch and Ungnad, a soldier. The name of the second officer is literally fish-catcher, but it is certain that here he was some kind of a fisher of men.
[462] Such as plowing, or the young plants early in the season.
[463] At this point five columns of the pillar are erased. It is estimated that 35 sections of the laws are thus lost. § 66 is added from a fragment found at Susa.
[464] Translated from Poebel, Historical and Grammatical Texts, Philadelphia, 1914, No. 93, col. ii.
[465] Translated from ibid., col. iii.