The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . al Elishali (Pal. Expl. Fund, Quart. Stat., 1S92, p. 45), and W. MaxMiiller confounds it with Asi or Cyprus (Das Land A laschia, in the Zeits. fiir Assyr., vol. x. pp. 257-2G4). Two hundred aud thirty names belonging- to Naharaim are still legible on the lists of Tliilt-mosis III. (Makiette, Karnal; pis. 20, 21), and a hundred others have been eflaced from the inouument. Khalabu was identified by Chabas (Voyage dun Egyptien, pp. 100-102) with Khalybon, themodern Aleppo, and his opinion has been adopted by most Egyptologists; cf. Max Mul
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . al Elishali (Pal. Expl. Fund, Quart. Stat., 1S92, p. 45), and W. MaxMiiller confounds it with Asi or Cyprus (Das Land A laschia, in the Zeits. fiir Assyr., vol. x. pp. 257-2G4). Two hundred aud thirty names belonging- to Naharaim are still legible on the lists of Tliilt-mosis III. (Makiette, Karnal; pis. 20, 21), and a hundred others have been eflaced from the inouument. Khalabu was identified by Chabas (Voyage dun Egyptien, pp. 100-102) with Khalybon, themodern Aleppo, and his opinion has been adopted by most Egyptologists; cf. Max Muller, AsieuU7td Eurojia, pp. 256, 257. Brugsch (Geog. Ins., vol. ii. , 46) had Khelbijn, near Damascus, inhis eye; Halevy would read Kharabu, and iinds this name in the Tel el-Amarua tablets (Notes Gibgr.,in tlie Bevue Simitique dEpigraphie, etc., vol. i. p. 3S1). Tuuijia has been found in Tcnnib, Tiunab, by Noldeko (Tvnip und Charhu, in the Zeitschrift,1876, pp. 10, 11); Zarabu in Zarbi, and Surmata in Sarmeda, by Tomkins (On the Topog. of ,. 144 SYJilA AT THE BEGINNING OF THE EGYPTIAN CONQUEST. upon one of its rivals. Tlie boundaries of this portion of the Lower Lotanuhave come ilown to us in a singularly indefinite form, and they must also,moreover, have been subject to continual modifications from the results oftribal conflicts. We are at a loss to know whether the various principalitieswere accustomed to submit to the leadership of a single individual, or whetherwe are to relegate to the region of popular fancy that Lord of Naharaim of whom the Egyptian scribes madesuch a hero in their fantastic narra-
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