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

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I KINGS XX. 193
of the land ChattI, the land of Haraath ; I conquered 89
cities. Dadidri of Damaskus, 1 2 kings of the land Chatti
depended* mutually on their power, I put them to flight."
The third passage, in which this Benhadad is mentioned,
occurs in Salmanassar's bull-inscription, which is here more
complete than the obelisk-inscription in the passage re-
ferred- to. We there read: Ina XIV. pali-ja ma-a-
tu rapas-tu a-na la ma-ni ad-ki, it-ti I. C. M. 203
XX. M. ummanati-ja n^r Bu-rat ina mi-li-sa
1-bir. Ina ti-mi**-su-ma Dad-id-ri sa m§,t Imlri-
su, Ir-hu-li-ni m§,t A-ma-ta-ai a-di XII. sarrS,-
ni sa si-di tiS,m-di illti u sapltti umman§,ti-
su-nu madliti a-na la ma-ni id-ku-ni, a-na gab-
ja it-bu-ni, It-ti-su-nu am-dah-hi-is-ma apikta-
su-nu as-kun, narkabati-su-nu bit-hal-la-sunu
a-si-' u-nu-ut tahS.zi-su-nu 1-kim-su-nu;
a-na su-zu-ub n apsati-su-nu 1-li-u i.e. "In the
14*'' year of my reign I despatched summons to the broad
land without number; with 120,000 men of my troops I
crossed the Euphrates at its flood. At that time Dadidri
of Damaskus , Irchulini of Hamath with twelve kings of
the marches of the upper and lower*** sea, summoned their
* Root W^'i In the same connection that we have in the text we
find in other passages ittaklu "they confided"; see ahove p. 191 &c.
** This is ofcourse the right reading.
*** Without doubt parts of the Mediterranean sea. For further
particulars see my essay "On the names of seas" &c. in the Abhand-
lungen der Berl. Akad. 1877 (1878) pp. 173 foil. It may be conjec-
tured that the "lower sea" corresponds to the "Cilician-Issian" sea of
the classic writers (notice the mention of the "Guaean" i. e. some
"Cilician" among the allies of Dad-'idri , see above p. 186), and that
the "upper sea" corresponds to the "Phoenician sea" of the same
writers (Musri-Aegypt is mentioned in that very passage on p. 186).
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