* The Unki of the Assyrians, the Uniuqa of the Egyptians, is the valley of Antioch, the Amk of the present day.  Kunulua or Kinalia, the capital of the Patina, has been identified with the Gindaros of Greek times; I prefer to identify it with the existing Tell-Kunana, written for Tell-Kunala by the common substitution of n for l at the end of proper names.

     ** The Saluara of the Assyrian texts is the present Kara-su,
     which flows into the Ak-Deniz, the lake of Antioch.

[Illustration:  058.jpg RELIGIOUS SCENE DISPLAYING EGYPTIAN FEATURES]

     Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from the impression taken from a
     Hittite cylinder.

His mountain provinces yielded him wood and minerals, and provided a reserve of semi-savage woodcutters and herdsmen from which to recruit his numerous battalions.  The neighbouring princes, filled with uneasiness or jealousy by his good fortune, saw in the Assyrian monarch a friend and a liberator rather than an enemy.  Carchemish opened its gates and laid at his feet the best of its treasures—­twenty talents of silver, ingots, rings, and daggers of gold, a hundred talents of copper, two hundred talents of iron, bronze bulls, cups decorated with scenes in relief or outline, ivory in the tusk or curiously wrought, purple and embroidered stuffs, and the state carriage of its King Shangara.  The Hittite troops, assembled in haste, joined forces with the Aramaean auxiliaries, and the united host advanced on Coele-Syria.  The scribe commissioned to record the history of this expedition has taken a delight in inserting the most minute details.  Leaving Carchemish, the army followed the great caravan route, and winding its way between the hills of Munzigani and Khamurga, skirting Bit-Agusi, at length arrived under the walls of Khazazu among the Patina.*

* Khazazu being the present Azaz, the Assyrian army must have followed the route which still leads from Jerabis to this town.  Mount Munzigani and Khamurga, mentioned between Carchemish and Akhanu or Iakhanu, must lie between the Sajur and the Koweik, near Shehab, at the only point on the route where the road passes between two ranges of lofty hills.

The town having purchased immunity by a present of gold and of finely woven stuffs, the army proceeded to cross the Aprie, on the bank of which an entrenched camp was formed for the storage of the spoil.  Lubarna offered no resistance, but nevertheless refused to acknowledge his inferiority; after some delay, ifc was decided to make a direct attack on his capital, Kunulua, whither he had retired.  The appearance of the Assyrian vanguard put a speedy end to his ideas of resistance:  prostrating himself before his powerful adversary, he offered hostages, and emptied his palaces and stables to provide a ransom.  This comprised twenty talents of silver, one talent of gold, a hundred talents of lead, a hundred talents