The land of the Hittites

by John Garstang

[760] Winckler, B. K. Tablets, op. cit., p. 34.

[761] An Assyrian king, Ashur-uballit II. (? c. 1420 B.C.), claims to have wrested Malatia from the Mitannians; cf. Johns, in Hastings’ Dict. (1909).

[762] Khalpa in Hittite, Khalman in Assyrian.

[763] Katna lay on the Khabour, tributary of the Euphrates; Nî must have been somewhere N.W. of Aleppo.

[764] Winckler, T. A. Letters, No. 132.

[765] Ibid., No. 146.

[766] Winckler, T. A. Letters, No. 139; Winckler, B. K. Tablets, p. 34. The parallelism between the archives of Tell el-Amarna and Boghaz-Keui is remarkable and instructive.

[767] For he addressed a letter to the Egyptian court in the third year of the reign of Amenhetep IV., about 1373.

[768] Further information about this chieftain also transpires in the letters (Winckler, No. 7; Knudtzon, No. 51) in reference to Nukhasse.

[769] That his action followed closely on the events just described is clear from Letter, Winckler, No. 119, where the defection of his son Aziru and his destruction of Sumur are reported to the Pharaoh at the same time as the annexation of Am(ma) by Aitakama.