. Modern research as illustrating the Bible . Rooms in a Castle at Megiddo To illustrate the appearance of an excavated site. From Tell eUMutesellim 1908 , p. 1? Fig. 13 . .• 4- EXCAVATION ()!• TELL EL-HESY 43 c &. £. PG 0) 3 _>.— 9 ^Is = - a B3 T. - - CO i, I _U3D 1 i. fa I J. 5. > a r . (3 C _ £ ta t- c — -5 4h s^ >, oT P* s J. c ^ 44 CANAAN AS KNOWN THROUGH EXCAVATION It mentions one Zimrida, who, to judge from the locality, is not theZimrida of Sidon, but the Zimrida, governor of Lachish, who, inone of the Tell el- Amarna letters,1 promises to obey the orders of theEgyptian king,
. Modern research as illustrating the Bible . Rooms in a Castle at Megiddo To illustrate the appearance of an excavated site. From Tell eUMutesellim 1908 , p. 1? Fig. 13 . .• 4- EXCAVATION ()!• TELL EL-HESY 43 c &. £. PG 0) 3 _>.— 9 ^Is = - a B3 T. - - CO i, I _U3D 1 i. fa I J. 5. > a r . (3 C _ £ ta t- c — -5 4h s^ >, oT P* s J. c ^ 44 CANAAN AS KNOWN THROUGH EXCAVATION It mentions one Zimrida, who, to judge from the locality, is not theZimrida of Sidon, but the Zimrida, governor of Lachish, who, inone of the Tell el- Amarna letters,1 promises to obey the orders of theEgyptian king, and who is also referred to in one of Abdi-hibasletters- as conspired against by the enemies of the king. The tabletis unfortunately mutilated: but it apparently informs an unnamedgeneral that Zimrida has been incited, and perhaps has even agreed,to call out the city against the king. The discovery of this tabletwas important; for it fixes the date of City III, in the ruins of whichit was found, to about b. c. 1400. Scarabs of the XYIIIth Dynastyappear in the same stratum, pointing to the same date. AboveCity III there comes a layer of ashes, varying from 3 to 7 feet inthickness, the origin
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