The Tell Amarna Tablets
GIFT OF -!>& THE TELL AMARNA TABLETS After two years' study of the published texts of the tablets found at Tell Amarna, Major Conder has completed a translation of them, which the Com- mittee of the Fund have undertaken to publish. In this, as in all their publications, the Committee beg it to be understood that the author alone is re- sponsible for the opinions put forward. JAMES GLAISHER, Chairman Executive Committee, January^ 1893. TELL AMARNA TABLETS '§xan5laicb C. R. CONDER, Major R.E., D.C.L., LL.D., M.R.A.S. SECOND EDITION, WITH CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS. PUBLISHED FOR THE COMMITTEE OF THE PALESTINE EXPLORATION FUND BY A. P. WATT & SON, NORFOLK STREET, STRAND. 1894. [All rights resen<ed'\ Ca^Mi^^^ 3 H/rlhj CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE PREFACE - - - - - - ix I. INTRODUCTORY ----- i II. THE HITTITE INVASION OF DAMASCUS - - II III. THE AMORITE TREACHERY - - -29 IV. THE WAR IN PHCENICIA - - - "44 V. NORTHERN PALESTINE - - - "97 VI. SOUTHERN PALESTINE - - - - I15 iVH. ROYAL LETTERS - - - - - 1 64 APPENDIX - - - - - 225 NOTES ------ 247 GEOGRAPHICAL INDEX - - - - 255 ILLUSTRATIONS GENERAL MAP . _ - - FrouHspiece - MAP OF NORTHERN PALESTINE, HITTITE WAR 1 ' MAP OF SYRIA, AMORITE WAR - - ZZ MAP OF SOUTHERN PALESTINE - - - I16 TABLET OF CUNEIFORM INSCRIPTION FROM TELL EL - - HESY - - . - - 130 5537475 ; ---^'jh PREFACE. The Tell Amarna Tablets were discovered in 1887 by a peasant woman of Egypt, amid the ruins of the palace of Amenophis IV., midway between Thebes and Memphis, at the site of the ancient Antinoe, about 180 miles by river south of Cairo. Those tablets under present consideration date about 1480 B.C., and are written to the King of Egypt and to certain of his officials by Amorites, Phoenicians, Philistines and others.
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