PALESTINE AT THE CONQUEST
interesting and tantalizing sketch of the material was given by Winckler in the Mitteillungen of the German Orient Society in 1907, but his illness and death have prevented the eagerly awaited publication of farther material, which includes a treaty with the land of Jeshua for which the Hittites had to cross the river and which is supposed to have lain away to the northeast beyond the Mitannians, but which recalls the fact that there was a Prince Jeshua mentioned in the north east of Palestine and recalls the fact that later this region was "beyond the river."
The archive at Taanach is described by Sellin. In a small room in the citadel "intended apparently as a governor's residence," was found a large quadrangular chest made of clay 4 cm. thick. The chest itself was 60 cm. wide and 65 cm. high and had apparently contained clay tablets of which twelve complete or fragmentary ones were found. These are, like
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