Note 442 — Chapter VI · THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MONARCHY
Reading edition
Hitzig identified the name of Achish with that of the Homeric Ankhisês. Whether this is so or not, Dr. W. Max Müller is probably right in seeing the same name in that of a native of Keft, or the northern coast of Syria, mentioned in an Egyptian papyrus where it is written Akashau (Spiegelberg in the Zeitschrift für Assyriologie, viii. p. 384).