Asia

and the use of Babylonian as a literary language. It also proves all Palestine, Pheenicia, and Syria to have been garrisoned at this time by Egyptian troops (see Egypt and Hebrews; and Records of the Past, new series, ii, of 1889, for these relations). ‘ The subjects of the tablets are various—even including two mythological stories— but mostly they refer to royal alliances, wars, ‘appointment of officials, the state of the countries, rebellions, and politics generally.