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

THE SOUTH SYRIAN WAR 129

The district of this letter is not clear.
Tushulti seems like the Tasuret or Tasulet
of Tahutmes III., which is almost certainly
Teiasir near Shechem in Samaria. But on
the other hand, Khazi is probably the same
here as in 107, where the geography ap-
parently fixes it to el'Azziyeh between the
Jordan and the Litany. And Makhzi . . . ti
looks like Mikhiza, the city of Arzawaya
on the south of Hermon. If so, Ushtiru
would be Shtora, between Beyrut and
Damascus. The second letter seems to
belong to the first, Tu . . . being Tushulti,
and possibly Khabi a mistake for Khazi.

38. Abdkhiba Faili?ig.

We now turn back to Abdkhiba, in a later
letter, written after the letters 233, 234 from
him; after 239, 240 from Lapaya; after 244
from Biridiya; after 246 on Lapaya's cap-
ture; and after 251 on Lapaya's death. In
this Lapaya seems to be dead, and his sons
acting alone.

(254) ABDKHIBA to the king. All the countries

are hostile, Gazri, Asqaluna, and Lakisi;

if no troops are sent, nothing will be left to

the king. Milkili and the sons of Lapaya

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