[750] In what follows we attempt to reconstruct the campaigns of Subbi-luliuma from the new records read side by side with the Tell el-Amarna letters, basing the sequence of events, where no clue is provided, on the gradual movement of the scene from north to south.
[751] Fragment of treaty, Winckler, B. K. Tablets, p. 35.
[752] See below, and cf. Winckler, T. A. Letters, Nos. 132, 139.
[753] Winckler, loc. cit.
[754] Winckler, T. A. Letters, No. 125. The alternative reading Am in place of the more familiar Amki is proposed by Sayce (cf. The Hittites, p. 164), and corresponds closely with the Amma or Ammiya of the Tell el-Amarna texts. He points out that the reading Amki is inadmissible, as ki is really the ordinary determinative.
[755] Mitanni treaty preamble, Winckler, op. cit., p. 32. Cf. Maspero, Struggle of the Nations, pp. 358 ff.
[756] Unless it be that which Tushratta claims in a letter to the Pharaoh to have successfully resisted. Winckler, T. A. Letters, No. 16.
[757] Winckler, B. K. Archives, op. cit., pp. 33, 34.
[758] We may suspect that, as the fashion was, numbers of the conquered Mitanni people were drafted off to the Hatti-land and settled on the soil, where they appear in later times as the Matieni (Herodotus, i. 72; v. 49, 52). Cf. Th. Reinach, Un Peuple oublié, les Matiènes (Rev. des Études Grecques, ’94, pp. 217, 218).
[759] The fact seems to transpire in the T. A. Letters: cf. the story of Akizzi which follows.