Petrie, William M. Flinders: Syria and Egypt from the Tell el Amarna letters (London, 1898)

INTRODUCTION 19

Kishon, just beyond Carmel. Tahutmes
IV. fought the Khita, who must at that time
have been far in the north, up to Cilicia, and
hence he seems to have occupied the whole
of Syria.

Of Amenhotep III.—the first king of this
correspondence — there are, unfortunately,
very few records of his conquests or power.
For the names of the subject peoples of
Syria we are dependent on the decorative
figures of captives around the columns of the
temple at Soleb in Ethiopia. There are
three series of them, each series double ; part
facing one way and part the other. The
most probable order to read them is from
the pair face to face, reading first those
which face to right and then those which
face to left. The series then appear thus
(see Leps. Denk. iii. 88):

First Series.

Sengar . Singara, W. of Nineveh.
Naharain . Upper Euphrates, both sides.
Khita . N. end of Syria, Comagene.

Kedesh
Tanepu
(lost)
(lost)

By Lake Horns ?
Tunip, Tennib.

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