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

THE SOUTH SYRIAN WAR 135

in Judea, as she mames Milkili, and the attack
on Ayalon and Zorah, in the hills, half-way
from Jerusalem to the coast. The city of
Tsapuna is therefore somewhere near there,
and Siffin, north of Ayalon, seems to corre-
spond to this. It is certain that these letters
must come late in the history, as the position
of the Khabiri corresponds to that of the
last of Abdkhiba's letters.

This last letter may belong to Galilee, but
cannot be safely placed.

(267) x to king. Brother of x has rebelled in

Tubikhi, and gone to besiege cities.....

lands of Amurri.....garrisons all gone

.....towns belong to Khabiri. Asks

for help to retake Tubikhi. (W. 127.)

40. In taking a general view of these
letters, and the history that they show, we
may notice some broad conclusions. The
gradually shifting of the peoples down Syria
southward is regular and clear. In the early
part of these letters the Khita, Hittites, are
in the far north, and only one or two princes
have established themselves southward. The
Hittite prince who went farthest south at
that time was that on the mountains of Igaid
(letter 1) in the Lebanon; having come