Note 124 — Chapter V · BABYLONIA AND PALESTINE

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.