The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . is repeated incursions and troubledby his intrigues. He liad taken and pillaged twenty towns, among which Marriage of AmenOthus IV. with Tadukhipa, daughter of Diishratta (Bezold-Budge, Tell el-Amarna Tablets in the British Museum, No. 11, p. 26, 11. 4, 5). , Der Thonliifel/und von El-AmariM,NoAS, p\. 15; cf. Velattre, Leltres de Tellel-Amarna, in the Iroceediwjs of the Soc. of Bibl. Arch., 1890-iH, vol. xiii. pp. Bezold-Buiigk, Tdl el-AtiKirna Tablets in the British Museum, No. (J, pp. 14, 15, and Drawn
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . is repeated incursions and troubledby his intrigues. He liad taken and pillaged twenty towns, among which Marriage of AmenOthus IV. with Tadukhipa, daughter of Diishratta (Bezold-Budge, Tell el-Amarna Tablets in the British Museum, No. 11, p. 26, 11. 4, 5). , Der Thonliifel/und von El-AmariM,NoAS, p\. 15; cf. Velattre, Leltres de Tellel-Amarna, in the Iroceediwjs of the Soc. of Bibl. Arch., 1890-iH, vol. xiii. pp. Bezold-Buiigk, Tdl el-AtiKirna Tablets in the British Museum, No. (J, pp. 14, 15, and Drawn by Faucher-Gudiu, from a photograph by lusiuger. The tomb is that of Tutit. Bezold-Budge, Tell el-Amarna Tablets, etc., Nos. 2-4, pU. (J-ll, and pp. For further account of thia stirring personage, cf. the memoir of Vkia: Delattke, Azlru, in theIroceedinijs of the Soc. of Bibl. Arch., 1890-01, vol. xiii. pp. 215-234, and Lettres de Tell el-Amarna,in the Proceedings, 1892-!J3, vol. xv. pp. 1(1-20, 21, 22, 345-37:i, 501, 502, 50S-510, THE DOOn OF A TOMB AT TEI. EL-AMAKNA. 330 THE EIGETEENTH THEBAN DYNASTY. were Simyra, Sini, Irqata, and Qodshu, and he was already threatening Byblos,Berytus, and Sidon. It was useless to complain of him, for he alwaysmanaged to exculpate himself to the royal messengers. Khai, DMu, Ame-nemaupit had in turn all pronounced him innocent. Pharaoh himself, afterciting him to appear in Egypt to give an explanation of his conduct, hadallowed himself to be won over by his fair speaking, and had dismissed himuncondemned. Other princes, who lacked his cleverness and power, triedto imitate him, and from north to south the whole of Syria could only becompared to some great arena, in which fighting was continually carried onbetween one tribe or town and another—Tyre against Sidon, Sidon againstByblos, Jerusalem against Lachish. All of them appealed to Khuniatonii, andendeavoured to enlist him on their side. Their despatches arrived by sco
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