147 B.—From (_Khiziri?_), the King’s servant. He will meet the soldiers, and has received a message from _Maya_ about a tax. 148 B.—_Ruzbanya_, of _Taruna_, is a servant of the King. The letter is broken. He was of old a servant of the King. 150 B.—From _Nurtu_.... He listens to the _Paka_, and will fortify until the King comes to his tribe. He fills a good-sized tablet, without giving any information of interest. 76 B. M.—_Zidriyara_ writes, with the usual compliments, to acknowledge a message. 141 B.—_Zidriyara_ is faithful, as of old, and a friend of the rulers, and listens to all the King’s messages. 140 B.—_Zidriyara_ hears the message of the King, whose servant he is—“the Sun from among the Heavenly Gods who has spoken”—and he will not neglect the messages of the King his lord, or of the _Paka_ who is established with him. 135 B.—Apparently without a name. He is only a dog, but will march with chariots and horses to meet the Egyptian soldiers (_bitati_). 130 B.—_Sutarnamu_, of his city _Zicaruenu_,(364) bows to the King. He asks for soldiers of garrison, as they are obstructing the district of the King’s land near him. Probably the site is the present village _Dhikerîn_, near Gath on the south, which was the Caphar Dikerin of the Talmud (Tal. Jer. “_Taanith_,” iv. 8), in the region of Daroma (now _Deirân_), near Ekron (see Ekha ii. 2). He asks for soldiers. 131 B.—_Samuaddu_, of the town of _Sama’una_, listens to all the King’s messages. Perhaps _Sammûnieh_, an ancient and important ruin immediately east of Kirjath Jearim (_’Erma_), on the way to Jerusalem, by the Valley of Sorek, is the place intended. Nos. 79, 80, 81 B. M. are short and broken letters, which appear only to acknowledge messages received. No. 80 is from a certain _Nebo_...; in No. 79 there appears to be no personal name, and in No. 81 it is destroyed.