The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . e dun %(/;)(«•», pp. 291-293); it is also found under tliat of Rapikhi in the Assyrian inscriptions of tlic time of Sargon II.,King of Assyria (Oiteut-Menant, La Grande Inscription du Palais de Khorsahad, 1. 25, p. 74. * The term Shephelah signifies the plain (cf. p. 13 nf the present volume); it is applied by theBiblical writers to the plain bordering tlic coast, from the licights of Gaza to those of Jojipa, whicliwere inhabited at a later period by the Thilistines (Juah. xi. 10; Jer. xxxii. 44 and xsTxiii. 13). GiERiN, La Judee, vol.
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . e dun %(/;)(«•», pp. 291-293); it is also found under tliat of Rapikhi in the Assyrian inscriptions of tlic time of Sargon II.,King of Assyria (Oiteut-Menant, La Grande Inscription du Palais de Khorsahad, 1. 25, p. 74. * The term Shephelah signifies the plain (cf. p. 13 nf the present volume); it is applied by theBiblical writers to the plain bordering tlic coast, from the licights of Gaza to those of Jojipa, whicliwere inhabited at a later period by the Thilistines (Juah. xi. 10; Jer. xxxii. 44 and xsTxiii. 13). GiERiN, La Judee, vol. ii. pp. 223-233, describes at length the road from Gaza to Itapliia. Theonly town of importance between them in tlio Greek period was Icuysos (Herodotus, III. v. and ), the ruins of which arc lo be found near Khan Yunes, but the Egyptian name for tliis localityis unknown : Auuangasa, tlie name of wliicli Brugsch thought he could identify with it (GeschichteAigyptens, p. 269), should bo placed much furtlier away, in Northern or in 126 SmiA AT THE BEGINNING OF TEE EGYPTIAN CONQUEST. was their first halting-place beyond the frontier, and the news which wouldreach them here prepared them in some measure for what awaited themfurther on. The army itself, the trcop of Ra, was drawn from four greatraces, the most distinguished of which came, of course, from the banks of theNile: the Amii, born of Sokhit, the lioness-lieaded goddes=, were classed in thesecond rank; the Nahsi, or negroes of Ethiopia, were placed in the third;while the Timihu, or Libyans, with the white tribes of the north, brought upthe rear.^ The Syrians belonged to the second of these families, that next inorder to the Egyptians, and the name of Amu, which for centuries had beengiven them, met so satisfactorily all political, literary, or commercial require-ments, that the administrators of the Tharaohs never troubled themselvesto discover the various elements concealed beneath the term.^ We ar
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