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Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations

CHAPTER IV
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The text of the treaty is engraved on the walls of Karnak.

There we may read how the two rivals swore henceforth to be friends and allies, how the existing boundaries of their respective territories in Syria were to remain unchanged for ever, and how a general amnesty was to be granted to the political fugitives on either side.

It was only the criminal to whom the right of asylum in the dominions of the other was denied.
In the war they had waged with Egypt the Hittite princes of Kadesh had summoned their vassal allies from the distant coasts of Asia Minor.
Lycians and Dardanians had come from the far west; and were joined by the troops of Aram-Naharaim from the east.

The extension of Hittite supremacy to the shores of the AEgean Sea is testified by the monuments it has left behind.

Hittite inscriptions have been found near Smyrna engraved on the rocks, as well as the figures of Hittite warriors guarding the westernmost pass of the ancient road.


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