TATASA (an ally ?) KHEERAPSARA, scribe of books of the KlieTA, PEESA, TEETARA, KRABeTUSA, AXKMA (an ally ?) SA.MARUS, TATARA, MATREEMA, brother of [the king of ] the KHeTA, RABSUNUNA, (an ally ?) TUATASA (an ally ?) The former names are evidently pure Hebrew, though the significations of some (Ephron, Elon, Beeri) may point to primitive nature-worship. If not they are indicative of a strong love of nature, and of the degree of mental refinement which it necessarily implies. Adah is remarkable as being also an antediluvian name.
The latter names are evidently Semitic, but not Hebrew, a circumstance that need not surprise us when we know that Aramaic was separate from Hebrew in Jacob's time. The syllables SEERA ill KHeT-SEERA, and RAB in RAB-SUNUNA, seem to correspond to the SAR and R_AB of Assyrian and Babylonian names. TEETARA may be the same name as the Tidal of Scripture. But the most re markable of all these names is MATREEMA, which corresponds as closely as possible to Mizraim. The third letter is a hard T, and the final syllable is constantly used for the Hebrew dual. In the
Egyptian name of Mesopotamia, NEHARENA, we find the Chaldee and Arabic dual. It would therefore appear that the language of the KHeTA was nearer to thc lIebrew than to the Chaldee. TARICATATASA probably commences with the name of the goddess Derketo or Atargatis.
The principal source of information on the Egyptian bearings of this subject is Brugsch's graphirche Inschriften, p. 20, sem. The ments to which he mainly refers are the inscriptions of Rameses II., the poem of PF.NTAUR, and the treaty. The first are given by Lepsius (Denkmaler, bl. 153-161, 164-166, 187, 196 ; see also 130, 209), and translated by M. Chabas ,(Rev. Arch., 1859): see also Brugsch, Histoire d'Enple (i. p. 137, seqq.); the second is translated by M. de Rouge (Rezhte Contemporaine, No. 106, p. 389, sem.), Dr. Brugsch (//. cc.), Mr. Goodwin, bridge Essays, 1858, and in Bunsen's Egypt's Place (iv. p. 675, seqq.); and the third is translated by Dr. Brugsch (//. cc.), and Mr. Goodwin (Par. thenon, 1862).—R. S. P.