[119] Sayce, _Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archæology_, 1877, v. part ii.; Bezold, _Zeitschrift für Keilinschrift_, 1885, pp. 191–3. [120] _Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archæology_, November 1905, plate No. 11 [121] A cadastral survey, which was drawn up at this period under Uru-malik, or Urimelech, “the governor of the land of the Amorites,” would, if perfect, have given us an interesting description of Syria and Palestine in the third millennium before our era; see Thureau Dangin in the _Revue Sémitigue_, Avril 1897. [122] See Heuzey, in the _Revue d’Assyriologie_, 1897, pp. 1–12. [123] This was “the year when Samsu-iluna the king gave Merodach a shining mace of gold and silver, the glory of the temple; it made E-Saggil (the temple of Bel-Merodach at Babylon) shine like the stars of heaven.” The title of the year was derived from the chief event, or events, that characterized it. See Dr. Pinches, in the _Quarterly Statement of the Palestine Exploration Fund_, April and July 1900, pp. 269–73. [124] See my analysis of some of the Hyksos names in the _Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archæology_, 1901, pp. 95–8. Since the publication of the Paper other names of the same type, like Rabu and Sakti, have come to light. The characteristic names of the Hyksos princes recur among the “Amorite” names found in the contract tablets of the Khammu-rabi period, but not later. The abbreviated forms of the names met with on the Egyptian scarabs are also found in the tablets. Indeed, the contracted form of Ya’qub-el, that is to say, Yakubu, with _k_ instead of _q_, must have been transcribed from a cuneiform original. [125] Macalister, _Quarterly Statement of the Palestine Exploration Fund_, January 1903, p. 28. It is the seventh stone, however, which alone has been brought from a distance--the neighbourhood of Jerusalem--all the others being of local origin (_Quarterly Statement_, July 1904, pp. 194–5). [126] See Sellin, _Tell Ta’annek_ (1904) and _Eine Nachlese auf dem Tell Ta’annek in Palästina_ (1905). [127] _Tell Ta’annek_, pp. 27–8. The cylinder is earlier than B.C. 2000. [128] See my _Patriarchal Palestine_, pp. 60, 61. [129] _Collection De Clercq, Catalogue méthodique et raisonné_, i. p. 217. [130] _Quarterly Statement of the Palestine Exploration Fund_, January 1905, pp. 28, 29. [131] The chronological difficulty, however, would be partially solved if the date recently proposed by Professor Petrie (_Researches in Sinai_, ch. xii.) for the Twelfth dynasty--B.C. 3459–3250--be adopted. The Twelfth dynasty would in this case have reigned a thousand years before the dynasty of Khammu-rabi, whose domination in Palestine would have been an interlude in the history of the Hyksos period, while the conquest of Canaan by Sargon and Naram-Sin would have coincided with the supersession of the neolithic population by the “Amorites,” who brought with them the copper and the culture of Babylonia.