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

60 THE NORTH SYRIAN WAR

(107) ILDAYA of Khazi to the king. Warred

against cities in the land of Amki, but
Idagama of Kinza with the Khatti drove
him off. (W. 132.)

(108) BIRI[DASHYA?] of Khashabu to the

king. Warred against cities in the land of
Amki, but Idagama of Kinza with the
Khatti drove him off. (W. 131.)

(109) x (Namiawaza ?) to the king. Warred

against cities in the land of Amki, but
Idagama of Kinza with the Khatti drove
him off. (W. 133; B.O.D. 46.)

Here are three letters almost verbally
identical from three different chiefs, who
had evidently leagued together to attack
the upper Litany valley. The position of the
land of Amki is very probably shown by
the place 'Ammik, nineteen miles south-east
of Beyrut. The restoration of the name
Biridashya is almost certain, as he was acting
on Yinuama, and in league with Buzruna
and Khalunni in No. 115; hence he must
have been about the region of Khashabu,
the Arabic Hoshaba. The result of this
affair appears in an extension of Hittite
power in the next.

(no) ADDU . . . IA ... and BATTI - ILU

to the king. Khatti and Lupakku have