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

246 THE CUNEIFORM INSCRIPTIONS AND THE 0. T.
annals Layard 67 a line 5 foil. ; 67 b line 1 foil. ; 68, 8—12
(ninth year) ; 5 1 a. b (tenth year). Comp. both accounts
with the parallel passage in the triumphal inscription
II Eawl. 67, 29—40. Not till the year 734 do we find
him again engaged in the West. The list of governors
notes down for this year a campaign of the king to the
land Pilista. By this term we must understand chiefly
Philistia. But it requires no explanation to show that the
expedition was by no means restricted to this tract of terri-
tory. The land is mentioned as on the whole the most
distant of all the countries to which the expedition extended.
But this campaign must have likewise aflPected Samaria,
Juda, the Phoenician towns, as well as Edom , Moab and
Ammon. And we also, to a certain extent, possess the
proof of this ,
chiefly in a fragment of the annals published
in III Rawl. 10, no. 2. Though it is seriously mutilated
— a piece is broken away in the middle— yet we can clearly
make out, what the inscription on this plate was about.
It commences with the enumeration of a number of towns
reduced by Tiglath-Pileser. Among these are named in
succession at line 13 Si-mir-ra and Ar-ka-a, unques-
tionably 1D!J and pIV , both of which are mentioned
255 in Gen. X. 1 7 foil, as Kanaanite towns and lay West of
Lebanon (on Ark a see Josephus , Archaeol. I. 6, 2 ; also
see above p. 87; on IDJi see p. 89). Then follows in lines
14— 16 a seriously mutilated passage, whence however it
is equally obvious that we have to do with subjugated
cities. Here we meet with the familiar phrase: SU-UT-
SAK-i[-ja Sakntiti ili-]§u-nu a§-kun "my officers,
[the viceroys], I placed over them." Immediately after
this we read line 17: ni(?)-ti fr Ga-al
[A]-bi-il ... §a zak matBtt-Hu-um-ri-a. .
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