259 Zimridi of Sidon is mentioned as a fugitive, while Gebal still held
out. Aziru marched from (ina) Gebal, no doubt, to attack the south.
In later ages the shore cities often held out while invaders from
the North marched on Egypt.

260 Amanabba was not really his father; it is a title of courtesy. His
father was Rabzabi (81 B., 82 B.), and Amanappa is an Egyptian name.
A certain captain Amenemhib has left an account of his services in
North Syria, at Aleppo, Carchemish, Kadesh, and at Ni, where he
hunted elephants; but this is supposed to have been a century
earlier. The site of Ni is settled by these letters and by the
Karnak lists as being in Mesopotamia, and there is a picture of an
elephant among the Asiatic spoils of Thothmes III. It is very
curious to find elephants so far west in Asia at this period.

261 Probably "outside" means north of the pass, and Ribadda made the
serious military mistake of defending his pass from outside instead
of inside.

262 This would seem to have been about the time of the proclamation
against Aziru, or rather earlier.

263 "Sapi" is probably the famous fortress Safita, northwest of Simyra.

264 The reinforcements were expected by sea, no doubt in the ships of
the Misi, or Delta men, the soldiers being Nubians from near Tell
Amarna, which was 180 miles south of Memphis.

265 Or Zabanba. Perhaps this is the Subandi, who writes letters from an
unknown town.

266 King of Beirut (B. M. 26, 27).

267 This translation is confirmed by the independent letter of Ribadda's
friend Ammunira (B. M. 36).

268 Egada is no doubt the land of Ikatai mentioned in the "Travels of an
Egyptian" (Chabas, p. 312); it there occurs with Aleppo and the
country of the Hittites. In the letter of the Hittite Prince of
Rezeph (north of Palmyra) we hear of his country as Egait (B. 10).
Rezeph was not far south of Tiphsah, on the Euphrates, and southeast
of Aleppo. Bikhuru is, however, mentioned (18 B. M.) in connection
with the town of Cumidi.

269 I misread this name at first. The Amorite chief seems to have had
five sons including Aziru and (p. 224) Ben-mabenat (or Bumabula).

270 The paragraphs are marked off in many of the letters by the word
"sacunu" ("pause").

271 "Taratzi" may perhaps be Tarsus. Baal Tarzi is the l