scale among the Canaanites. Their
chief deity was Ashtart (Astarte), the goddess of fertility. Numerous
images of her have been found, but none of the god Baal. The types of
the divine form vary in the different places. The other images which
have been found represent Egyptian deities. We must not, however, infer
that there was a large Egyptian element in the Canaanitish Pantheon.
What the images do prove is the large amount of intercourse between
Egypt and Canaan, and the presence of Egyptians in the subject country.

See the _Tell-el-Amarna Letters_, ed. by Winckler, with translation
(1896); the reports of Macalister in the Pal. Expl. Fund Statements
from 1903 onwards; Sellin's report of excavations at Tell Ta'annek;
also H.W. Hogg, "Recent Assyriology," &c., in _Inaugural Lectures_ ed.
by Prof. A.S. Peake (Manchester University, 1905). On Biblical
questions, see Dillmann's commentaries and the Bible dictionaries. See
further articles PALESTINE; JEWS. (T. K. C.)

FOOTNOTES:

[1] _Enarralio in Psalm civ._

[2] W.M. Muller, _Asien und Europa, _p. 205.

[3] The letters are written in the official and diplomatic
language--Babylonian, though "Canaanitish" words and idioms are not
wanting.

[4] _Die Keilinschriften und das Alte Testament, _p. 181.

[5] These explanations are endorsed by Driver _ (Genesis, on _Gen. x.).

[6] See the relevant articles in _Ency. Bib. _and Cheyne's _Genesis
and Exodus._

[7] For the grounds of these dates see Winckler, _Gesch. Isr._ i. 127
f.; Paton, _Early Hist. of Syria and Palestine_ (1902), pp. 6-8,
25-28.

[8] It is true the Babylonians themselves interpreted the name
differently (5 R. 44 a b 21), _kimta rapashtum_, "wide family." That,
however, is only a natural protest against what we may call Canaanism
or Arabism.

[9] See Cheyne, _Genesis and Exodus_ (on Gen. i. 26), and cf. G.A.
Cooke, _N. Sem. Inscriptions_ (e.g. pp. 30-40, on Eshmunazar's
inscription).

[10] See _Amarna Letters_, Winckler's edition, No. 7.

[11] _Op. cit._ No. 146.

[12] _Op. cit._ No. 147.

[13] Johns, _Assyrian Deeds_, iii. p. 16.

[14] _Amarna Letters_, No. 180 (xi. 20-24).

[15] _Ibid._ No. 164 (xi. 15-18).

[16] Nomads of the Syrian desert.

[17] _Amarna Letters_, No. 144 (xi. 24-32).

CANACHUS, a sculptor of Sicyon in Achaea, of the latter part of the 6th
century B.C. He was especially