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

JOSHUA XVI. XVII. XIX. 157
inscription of Eshmunazar line 19; Keilinsch. u. Geschichts-
forschung pp. 121 foil.
XIX. 29. Ta lyrus'*, the well known royal city of
Phoenicia, is frequently mentioned in the inscriptions in the
form (I r, mat**) Sur-ru, 8ur-ri. We find it in the i69
monolith-inscription of Asurnasirhabal col. III. 86 along
with Sidon and Byblos ; likewise in the inscription of king
Rammannir^r I Rawl. 35 line 22, in those of Sargon e. g.
cylinder-inscription I Rawl. 36 line 21 as well as those
of Asarhaddon and Asurbanipal (see my essay Zur Kritik
der Inschriften Tigl.-Pil.'s II &c. p. 33). We gather from
the passage in the monolith-inscription that Tyre, as well as
Sidon, was tributary to Assyria as early as the first half of
the 9*'' century. The passage in the inscription of Sargon
runs as follows : 1 i - ' tam-ha-ri, sa i-na kabal ti-
^m-tiv mS,t la-av-na-ai sa-an-da-nis ki-ma nu-
u-ni i-ba-ru-u-ma u-sap-si-hu mat Ku-i u ir
Sur-ri i. e. "(Sargon) courageously (rh) to the combat,
who in the midst of the sea draws forth the lonians like
sandanis fishes, and rescued the land Kul, as well as the
city Tyre, from their oppression" (Keilinsch. u. Gesch.
p. 238, comp. with Delitzsch Parad. p. 248).*** From
* With respect to the reproduction of the Semitic emphatic sibilant
by the Graeco-Latin t in this name, see J. Olshausen in Berlin. Akad.
Monatsber. 1879 pp. 550 foil.
** Generally we have the latter determinative; ir occurs in II Rawl.
67, 66; Sargon Khorsab. 1. c.
*** uiapsihu, root r\]i}D (— Arabic ^an^s ?), causative like the Hebr.
D'n"in root 3n"l
P^. IV. 2.—with regard to the fact, we must bear
in mind Sanherib's victory over the Ionian fleet on the Cilician coast
[Abydenus quoted in Eusebius' chron. (Schoeue) I. 35]. Respecting
the land Kui i. e. the Ciliciau coast-region, see Keilinsch. u. Gesch.
pp. 236 foil.