[Footnote 14158:  Abd-Melkarth is one of the commonest of Phoenician names.  It occurs, either fully, or in the contracted form of Bod-Melkarth, scores of times in the inscriptions of Carthage.  The meaning is “servant of Melkarth.”]

[Footnote 14159:  Records of the Past, iii. 112.]

[Footnote 14160:  Ancient Monarchies, ii. 186.]

[Footnote 14161:  Rec. of the Past, iii. 111, 112.]

[Footnote 14162:  Eponym Canon pp. 139, 140.]

[Footnote 14163:  Ibid. p. 140, Extract xxxviii. ll. 1-3.]

[Footnote 14164:  Eponym Canon, p. 140, Ext. xxxviii. ll. 4-9.]

[Footnote 14165:  Ibid. p. 141, Ext. xl.]

[Footnote 14166:  Ibid. p. 142, ll. 12, 13.]

[Footnote 14167:  Eponym Canon, p. 142, l. 14.]

[Footnote 14168:  See Ancient Monarchies ii. 193.]

[Footnote 14169:  Ibid. p. 195.]

[Footnote 14170:  Eponym Canon, p. 143, Extr. xli. l. 3.]

[Footnote 14171:  Eponym Canon, pp. 143, 144.  Six names are lost between the eleventh line and the eighteenth.  They may be supplied from the broken cylinder of Esarhaddon (Records of the Past, iii. 107, 108.)]

[Footnote 14172:  Eponym Canon, pp. 144, 145, ll. 84-98.]

[Footnote 14173:  Ibid. p. 139, l. 17.]

[Footnote 14174:  Records of the Past, vol. i. p. 100.]

[Footnote 14175:  Records of the Past, i. 66; ix. 41.]

[Footnote 14176:  Ibid. iii. 67, ll. 116, 117.]

[Footnote 14177:  Ibid. i. 67, 68.]

[Footnote 14178:  See Judg. xix. 29; Eponym Canon, p. 132, l. 9.]

[Footnote 14179:  Eponym Canon, pp. 149, 149.]

[Footnote 14180:  Eponym Canon, p. 70.]

[Footnote 14181:  Herod. i. 103.  B.C. 633 was, according to Herodotus, the year of the accession of Cyaxares.  His attack on Nineveh seems to have followed shortly after.]

[Footnote 14182:  Herod. l.s.c. and iv. 1; Ezek. xxxviii. 2-16; Strabo, xi. 8, Sec. 4; Diod.  Sic. ii. 34, Sec. 2-5.]

[Footnote 14183:  Ancient Monarchies, ii. 221.]

[Footnote 14184:  Stanley, Lectures on the Jewish Church, ii. 432, 433.]

[Footnote 14185:  Herod. i. 105; Strabo, i. 3, 16; Justin, ii. 3.]

[Footnote 14186:  Herod. l.s.c.; Hippocrat. De Aere, Aqua, et Locis, vi.  Sec. 108.]

[Footnote 14187:  Herod. i. 73.]

[Footnote 14188:  Strabo, xi. 767; Arrian, Exp.  Alex. iii. 8, Sec. 4.]

[Footnote 14189:  Polyb. v. 70, Sec. 4.]

[Footnote 14190:  Ancient Monarchies, ii. 228, note.]

[Footnote 14191:  Ancient Monarchies, ii. 232.]

[Footnote 14192:  Herod. ii. 157; and compare the author’s History of Ancient Egypt, ii. 467, note 6.]

[Footnote 14193:  Ezek. xxvii. 8.]