Egypt

seems to have been a milch cow of the Asiatik princes, sending them gold and other valuables. She was in trading relations also with Alasiya, which appears to have been in Asia Minor on the sea coast. [Elishah, Gen x, 4, according to Colonel Conder.—Ep.] Her armies reached Kappadokia, and encamped on the shores of the gulf of I us. The king of Jerusalem often writes to ask for the support of his suzerain, and for greater activity on the part of Egyptian governors. In one letter he says (see Records of the Past, new series, v, p. 92), as freely rendered: “I, ’Abd Khiba, thy servant, prostrate myself seven times seven, saying, as my Lord the King knows, that Malchiel (Milki-ili) and Suardatum are collecting forces against the King in Gezer, Gimti, and Keilah; they have occupied Rabbah, and now threaten this mountain of Uru-salim, The city of the King is separated from the city of Keilah... so may the King hear thy servant.” In Prof. Petrie’s beautifully illustrated Tel-el-Amarna Memoir, Khu-en-Aten or Akhen-Aten (A me no phis IV) is shown to present the features of his Asiatik mother Teie. His palace mound extends about 600 feet by 400 feet. He marked the distances seven miles north and seven south of the centre, by 13 steli, on the face of the cliffs, and dedicated the whole region to Aten, in his sixth regnal year. His cultus and his capital seem to have perished with himself; we can but conjecture them when we explore the rubbish heaps and cellars of his palace, finding wine vases, foreign pottery, and rare gla , as well as the pricele literature of these kune i form tablets, some of which aré said to belong to a Babylonian dictionary compiled “by order of the King of Egypt.” As the pronunciation of Sumerian (or Akkadian) words is carefully given, we may conclude that, although Semitic Babylonian was the language of official correspondence, Sumerian was still a spoken language in the 15th century Bc. [This is equally shown by the Hittite and the Mitani letters, which the author calls Turanian, as noticed above.—Ep.] Amazons. A race of valiant women who ruled in N.