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King Ini-teub of Carchemish in an Egyptian DocumentAuthor(s): R. D. Barnett and J. ernSource: The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 33 (Dec., 1947), p. 94Published by: Egypt Exploration SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3855446.Accessed: 15/04/2013 02:41

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By way of defending my refusal to transliterate the second cartouche, I may indicate a fewpossibilities. Superficial resemblances to 'Amtalqa' and 'Harsiotef' will not, I think, bear closerinvestigation. The first sign could be m G or o P or a fortuitous gash; the second I .; the thirdt or q i; the fourth q i. Thereafter comes a small mark like = t, perhaps accidental; next eitherf or (value uncertain) or even =, the last of which in Napatan spellings can stand either forn or for t. The ultimate sign resembles another ot, but the alternative A k, representing a honorifictermination applied fairly commonly to royal and other names in Ethiopian, Meroitic, and ChristianNubian times, should not be overlooked. There is thus a large number of theoretically possiblereadings. The cartouches on the stela, I am told, do not resolve the difficulty. In such circumstancesI feel the inclusion of the photograph to be the only adequate way to exhibit the cartouche.

The full text on the jamb is x)[ ]X'\Q ?)t-, (seephoto.AQ+ . The mistake in the prenomen is repeated on the stela, where the concluding - is clearer.M. F. LAMINGMACADAM

King Ini-te6ub of Carchemish in an Egyptian documentAN ostracon from the Valley of the Kings now in the Cairo Museum inscribed in hieratic,' whichfrom the evidence of its palaeography and of that of the other ostraca found with it belongs clearlyto the Nineteenth Dynasty and most likely to its second half, preserves the beginning of a letterpurporting to be from a king (()i wr) of Carchemish whose name is given as l, 6iJ6il C-)'Intbs. This is to be read as Ini-tesub, a king of Carchemish known from Hittite cuneiform sourcesas a contemporary and vassal of the Hittite kings Hattusil III and his successor Tudhaliya IV?I250 B.C.2 The Pharaoh must thus be Ramesses II, whose diplomatic relations with the Hittiteswere close.We are indebted to Dr. A. H. Gardiner3 for having pointed out that tbs is a transposition, forwhatever reason, of the god's name Tegub; also that the sign is used as a determinative after thisAsiatic deity's name both here and in a similarly compounded name Ylktsb,dentified with the nameAki-Tesub of the Amarna letters.4 The new equation 'Intbs = Ini-te~ub is interesting, as it showsthe vocalization of the element 0 1, found elsewhere only coupled to the names of countries.Published n Cemy, Ostracahieratiques(Catalogue General), p. 94 and pl. cxi, no. 25807.

2 References are KBO iv io Rev 29 and KUB xxvi 43 Rev 29. The first is the treaty between the Hittiteking and Ulmi-Tesup of Datta??a. In both texts Ini-te?ub is cited as a witness to the document (we owe thisinformation to Dr. 0. R. Gumey). 3 See now his Ancient Egyptian Onomastica, Text, I, I32*.4 Burchardt, Die altkananaischenFremdworte,II, p. 10, no. 171. R. D. BARN=Erand J. CERNf

By way of defending my refusal to transliterate the second cartouche, I may indicate a fewpossibilities. Superficial resemblances to 'Amtalqa' and 'Harsiotef' will not, I think, bear closerinvestigation. The first sign could be m G or o P or a fortuitous gash; the second I .; the thirdt or q i; the fourth q i. Thereafter comes a small mark like = t, perhaps accidental; next eitherf or (value uncertain) or even =, the last of which in Napatan spellings can stand either forn or for t. The ultimate sign resembles another ot, but the alternative A k, representing a honorifictermination applied fairly commonly to royal and other names in Ethiopian, Meroitic, and ChristianNubian times, should not be overlooked. There is thus a large number of theoretically possiblereadings. The cartouches on the stela, I am told, do not resolve the difficulty. In such circumstancesI feel the inclusion of the photograph to be the only adequate way to exhibit the cartouche.

The full text on the jamb is x)[ ]X'\Q ?)t-, (seephoto.AQ+ . The mistake in the prenomen is repeated on the stela, where the concluding - is clearer.M. F. LAMINGMACADAM

King Ini-te6ub of Carchemish in an Egyptian documentAN ostracon from the Valley of the Kings now in the Cairo Museum inscribed in hieratic,' whichfrom the evidence of its palaeography and of that of the other ostraca found with it belongs clearlyto the Nineteenth Dynasty and most likely to its second half, preserves the beginning of a letterpurporting to be from a king (()i wr) of Carchemish whose name is given as l, 6iJ6il C-)'Intbs. This is to be read as Ini-tesub, a king of Carchemish known from Hittite cuneiform sourcesas a contemporary and vassal of the Hittite kings Hattusil III and his successor Tudhaliya IV?I250 B.C.2 The Pharaoh must thus be Ramesses II, whose diplomatic relations with the Hittiteswere close.We are indebted to Dr. A. H. Gardiner3 for having pointed out that tbs is a transposition, forwhatever reason, of the god's name Tegub; also that the sign is used as a determinative after thisAsiatic deity's name both here and in a similarly compounded name Ylktsb,dentified with the nameAki-Tesub of the Amarna letters.4 The new equation 'Intbs = Ini-te~ub is interesting, as it showsthe vocalization of the element 0 1, found elsewhere only coupled to the names of countries.Published n Cemy, Ostracahieratiques(Catalogue General), p. 94 and pl. cxi, no. 25807.

2 References are KBO iv io Rev 29 and KUB xxvi 43 Rev 29. The first is the treaty between the Hittiteking and Ulmi-Tesup of Datta??a. In both texts Ini-te?ub is cited as a witness to the document (we owe thisinformation to Dr. 0. R. Gumey). 3 See now his Ancient Egyptian Onomastica, Text, I, I32*.4 Burchardt, Die altkananaischenFremdworte,II, p. 10, no. 171. R. D. BARN=Erand J. CERNf

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