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elite troops; the reference to ˇ Sumitti is placed between two mentions of the Syrian city of Tunip, with which he was no doubt connected. Tunip was situated not far from the "Homs gap", i.e. the valley of the Eleutherus (1), where the "general" ˇ Sumitti, author of the letter to the king of Ugarit.
It is therefore not impossible that the latter descended from a family settled since the 14th c. in the zone border between Amurru and Ugarit. In that case, he was quite naturally designated for the command post of an army concentrated in this region (1A).
__________ 1) Cf O. W...r, in K... op. cit. p. 11...
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain