The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . exhaustively by TojiKixs, Anc. Geog. of X. Syria, in Proc. Bibl. Aich. Soc, 1882-83, pp. 58-G2; Onthe Topog. of N. Syria, in the Transactions, vol. ix. pp. 227-254 ; liecords of the Past, new ser., v. pp. 25-42; Xotes on Geog. of N. Syria, in the Bah. and Oriental Record, vol. ii. pp. 2-6, 41-46. Max Miillerhas devoted a few—unfortunately too few—pages to them in his Asien und Europa, pp. 286-292. - In the Story of the Predestined Prince the heroine is daughter of the Prince of Naharaim, whoseems to exercise authority over all the chief
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . exhaustively by TojiKixs, Anc. Geog. of X. Syria, in Proc. Bibl. Aich. Soc, 1882-83, pp. 58-G2; Onthe Topog. of N. Syria, in the Transactions, vol. ix. pp. 227-254 ; liecords of the Past, new ser., v. pp. 25-42; Xotes on Geog. of N. Syria, in the Bah. and Oriental Record, vol. ii. pp. 2-6, 41-46. Max Miillerhas devoted a few—unfortunately too few—pages to them in his Asien und Europa, pp. 286-292. - In the Story of the Predestined Prince the heroine is daughter of the Prince of Naharaim, whoseems to exercise authority over all the chiefs of the country (Maspero, Les Coutes popidaires deVEgypte Aneienne, 2nd edit., pp. 231-234); as the manuscript does not date back further than theXX dynasty, we are justified in supposing that the Egyptian writer had a knowledge of the Hittitcdomination, during which the King of the KhiUi was actually the ruler of all Naharaim. Karkamisha, Gargamish, was from the beginning associated with the Carchemish of the Bible NAH A It AIM AND OARCHEMISTI 145. THE TELL OF JEBABIS IN ITS PRESENT CONDITION. last stage in a conquerors march coming from the soutli. For an invaderapproacliing from the east or north it formed his first station. He had beforeliim, in fact, a choice of the tliree chief fords for crossing the of Thapsacus, at the bend of the river where it turns eastveard to theArabian plain, lay too far to the south, and it could be reached only aftera mareli through a parched and desolate region where the army would runthe risk of perishing from thirst. For an invader proceeding from Asia Minor,or intending to make his way through the defiles of the Taurus, Samosataoffered a convenient fording-place; but this route would compel the general,wlio had Naharaim or tlie kingdoms of Chald;ea in view, to make a longdetour, and although the Assyrians used it at a later period, at the time oftheir expeditions to the valley of the Halys, the Egyptians do not seem evert
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