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Jews in thc Ileming of timber, In both cneer the Phcenilinns
are meant. , Sidonianr ' us the nameof u people
must once have been as cummuti as the ethnic names
illoabire, Edomite, Ammonite, and the rest.' Quite
rightly, then, in Gen. IOq. Canmn (=Syria, as in
Amnrna Tablet) ir said to have two suns, Sidon (the
Pi~umciuns) and Heth (the Hittites) Of there Sidon
ir the firstborn, because, as we now know, the Hittites
did not penetrate into centrnl Syria till the fourteenth
century. 'Afterwards,' ro the writer contir~ues (u. 186).
'the tribes of the Cann..nitesspread themselves abroad';
v. ,6b is admitted to be an il~terpolntion (see e.6, Dillmannl.
The same use of ' Sidonianr ' is common in
Roman poets, too, freque"tly use 'Sidonius' (as a
synonym for , I'oenus') in the sense of ' Phanician '
(cp Orid. Faiiit. 3108. etc.). E. M.
A king of Sidon has dealings with Zedekiah (Jer. 27&
and Jewish prophets mention Sidon by the ride of Tyre
both in the Rahylonian and in the Persian
3, Other
period (Jer 47 r Ezek. 278 Joe13 141,).
biblioal
Unfortunately the O'T references to Zidon,
iis well as to Tvre. , often occllr in
parsager where corruption may with probability be
suspected (so Cheyne: for instances see MlzRAIM,
TIKAS. ZAREPHATH~.~ Whether the destruction of
Sidon I,y Artaxerxes Ochus (351 B.C) is really referred
to in IS. zer-r4 (uuhm), ~ 4 (cheyne). , ~ is any
rate duubtful. The comparative revival of Sidon in
later times is attested bv Lk 617 Actr27q.
A hirhop of Sidon ('8 lily of no;e,' Eur. 6s) ?ttendcd the
Council of Niw (32s ~.r,.). Again =nd again Stdon ir mentioned
in the rnru1i of the Crusrde.. sever=1
4. Later timc, deirroyed, it wrr for three quite
nistov, stc. insignificant till at thc beginning of ths r.vcn-
Thr earliest pictorial re~rerenfations of sleees and
fortified town; come to us from 'ancient
under covaror the r;roiv.
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1 Forother OT eudence nee Dt.39 Juds.S)(=Jorh.13~.6),
106.2 6.115)~Ir.23z,efc.
a ... and ,,u odd arilv arise out of an indistinctlv written
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3 [From s series of newly.fmnd Phenician inrcriptianr it
nppan char Sidon conrirted of ac leait two diririonr. om of
which wnr cdied w py, 'Sidon.rupermare' (C. C. Torrry,
IAOS, 23 (100~) r568 Cp the Erhmunalar inrcriprion, 1. 16
E, pK pY (crs I n. J), and the ~ u. form ~~riud-hmr (see
The Tell-el- Amarna despatcher (qjo- rqoo B. c.)
yieid us but iittle information. The Egyptian governor
Rib-.4ddi, in repented letters to the King of Egypt,
con,parer himself to a (bird sitting in a snare' (?cage.
basket),' when &sieged in Gehl by the hostile forcer
commanded by Abcl-.4iirta. \\.e arc renlinded of
Sennaclrerih's phrase in rile Taylor-cylinder in which he
basts that he had shut in Hezekiah 'like a bird in n
cage' (cui. 3 ~ ) . Rib-Addi addresses repeated paihetic
apprair to the Egyptian sovereign to send him ~abi ( ~ r
amililti) mqartaj-ti), 'garrison Uoops' (cp Heb. ,im),
and rays (in another Letter) that he remains helpless
and inactive in his town and dare not pass outride the
city gates (64. N za f ); but r e have no details respecting
rlege operations.
When we con>e to the latter pm of the thirteenth
century s.c. (19th dyn.), however, the reign of Knmeses
11. affords us interesting glimpser into the methods of
rie~e and assault. The scenes are depicted in Lepsiur'
Dcn&makr, 3166. We have a representation of the
storming of Dapuru (?), a fortress of the Heta.
'This iortrers, nr we see deviates romerhaIfrom the ordinary
style of building. ~ ~ a battlernentcd l ~ d wall surrounds an
immense lower but~ding dich suppom four towzrr the la~esr
of which hrr windows and balconler Above the l/wFrr is seen
the standard of the town, a grcrt shield pierced through with
r . . . In order to protcct rl~emr~lver from the shower of
stoner and armwr the, the besieged pour down imm above the
Epmian roldicrr admnce under cover of pcnf-hourer. hen
ensues the actual rrormin of ,he castle by means of soling-
Irddcrr. .. Some ofthe ler thcmrelve. downover the
wall. more thzn one hcirig killed in this nffcmpf to escape'
(Erma", Lifr h A"