The Cuneiform inscriptions and the Old Testament; - The Search For ...

GENESIS X. 87
Juda, as being the hinder-country, with the name of the
fore-country, in just the same way as in later times the
whole of Kanaan , being likewise hinder-country , was
designated by the strangers, who came from the West or
rather the South-West, by the same name of 'Palestine'
see Keilinsch. u. Geschichtsforschung pp. 123 foil.
15. ]iT^ Sidon often occurs in the inscriptions in the
form i r and also matSidunu (Si-du-nu, Si-du-un-
nu); see I Rawl. 35, 12; Asurn^sirhabal III. 86 &c. It is
repeatedly named together with Tyre (Surru). It was
divided into the ''Great" and "Little Sidon" according to a
passage on the Taylor-cylinder of king Sanherib col. II,
38:lrSi-du-un-nu rabu-u IrSi-du-un-nu sihru
i. e. "the Great Sidon, the Little Sidon". We find men-
tioned on the cylinder (II. 35) as kings of Sidon, Lu-li-i
i. e. without doubt Elulaeus (Joseph. Arch. IX. 14, 2) =
^^l'?N, Assyr. Ululai i. e. "he of the month Elul", see io4
Keilinsch, u. Gesch. p. 336; also ibid. col. II, 48: Tu-
ba-'-lu i. e. Ithobal hv^^ii (1 Kings XVI. 31); and lastly
on the prism of Asarhaddon col. I. 40. 50 Ab-di-mi-il
(mil)-ku-ut-ti i. e. HD'^DIDI; "Servant of the Queen of
Heaven".
17. ""pli^ heofArha. The latter = the "Aqxti In Josephus
Arch. I. 6. 2, the 'Agxa Area of Ptolemaeus V. 15, 21
and Pliny V. 16, 74. This is also equivalent to ir Ar-
ka-(a) in the inscription of Tiglath-Pileser II who repeat-
edly mentions this town with Simirra (see below verse 18);
comp. Ill Rawl. 9. 46 ;
Gesch. pp. 116, 450.
10 no. 3 line 35; also Keilinsch. u.
18. npN Arvad, frequently occurs in the Ninivite in-
scriptions under the form, sometimes ofAr-va-da (Asur-
naslrhabal, inscrlpt. I Rawl. 25 col. III. 86), sometimes of
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