The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . galzu,and adds that the latter had counselled submission (Bezold-Bidge, Tell el-AuiamnTablets, No. 3, pp. xxxi., xxxii.; cf. Zimmern, Briefe am dem Funde von el-Amarna, in the Zeitschrift filrAssyriologie, vol. v. pp. 152, 153, and Delattre, Lettres, eic.,m the Proceedings, 1S90-91, vol. xiii. ). In one of the letters preserved in the British Museum, Azirfl defends himself for having receivedan emissary of tlie Kingof the Khati(BEZOLD-BrDGE, Tell el-Amarna Tahlets, No. 35, p. 73, II. 47-50). THE CONDITION OF THE VASSAL STATES. 273
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . galzu,and adds that the latter had counselled submission (Bezold-Bidge, Tell el-AuiamnTablets, No. 3, pp. xxxi., xxxii.; cf. Zimmern, Briefe am dem Funde von el-Amarna, in the Zeitschrift filrAssyriologie, vol. v. pp. 152, 153, and Delattre, Lettres, eic.,m the Proceedings, 1S90-91, vol. xiii. ). In one of the letters preserved in the British Museum, Azirfl defends himself for having receivedan emissary of tlie Kingof the Khati(BEZOLD-BrDGE, Tell el-Amarna Tahlets, No. 35, p. 73, II. 47-50). THE CONDITION OF THE VASSAL STATES. 273 vengeance ; the advent of the Egyptians foHowecl, and the work of repressionwas systematically set in hand. They destroyed the harvests, whether greenor ready for the sickle, they cnt down the palms and olive trees, they tore upthe vines, seized on the flocks, dismantled the strongholds, and took theinliabitants prisoners.^ The rebellious prince had to deliver up his silver andgold, the contents of his palace, even his children,^ and when he had finally. A 8TBIAN TOWN AND ITS OUTSKIRTS AFTER AN EGYPTIAN AR5IY HAD PASSED THKOnCH IT. obtained peace by means of endless sacrifices, he found himself a vassal asbefore, but with an empty treasury, a wasted country, and a decimatedpeople. In spite of all this, some headstrong native princes never re-linquished the hope- of freedom, and no sooner had they made good thebreaches in their walls as far as they were able, than tliey entered oncemore on this unequal contest, though at the risk of bringing irreparabledisaster on their country. The majority of them, after one such struggle,resigned themselves to the inevitable, and fulfilled their feudal obligationsregularly. Tliey paid their fixed contribution, furnished rations and stores Cf. the raiding, for instance, of tlio regions of Arvad and of the Zahi by Tliutmosis III., describedin the Annah, 11. 4, .); see also what is said on this subject on pp. 263, 204 of the present arc
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