... manehs for his awning. To be expended in full. ... manehs for the broad streets of the public road: seven talents ten manehs besides. Forty manehs and a shekel and (?) a sleeved dress; twenty-two talents for wood. At six per cent. on each shekel let him put out the money at triple interest. * * * * * Two talents without the linen. Fifteen talents ten manehs for the same personage. * * * * * Three talents ten manehs for the custom-house. Thirty talents ten manehs on (?) slaves. Two manehs for wine-presses. The money to be put out at double interest. * * * * * For rods: one talent (levied on) the north side (of the city). In all, twenty-two talents to be invested. Altogether thirty talents twenty-one manehs out of fifty-three talents. In the presence of the princes the money raised on the slaves to be invested. * * * * * [Here follows the endorsement of the tax-collectors:] We receive no bribes: we give what we take.' II. 'Thirty talents (are annually received) from Arpad. One hundred talents from Carchemish. Thirty talents from the city of the Kuans.[8] Fifteen talents from Megiddo. Fifteen talents from Mannutsuate. ... talents from Zemar (Gen. x. 18). ... talents from Hadrach (Zech. ix. 1). [8] The Kue or Kuans inhabited the northern and eastern shores of the Gulf of Antioch. M. François Lenormant has ingeniously suggested that in 1 Kings x. 28, we ought to read (with a slight change of vowel punctuation), 'And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and out of Kue the king's merchants received a drove at a price.' * * * * * ... talents to be put out at interest; fifty talents to be melted into bronze. It is weighed in the presence of the princes. (The tribute) of Damascus, Arpad, Carchemish, Kue, Tsubud, Zemar, and Meon-Zemar.'