would make him a very late contemporary of Solomon, whose accession is generally dated some 25 years earlier. Meyer remarks that this distinguished marriage may have given Solomon the impulse to his palace constructions. Winckler’s scoffing at the story of this marriage (GI 2, 63; KAT 236) on the basis of the Pharaonic declaration in Tell el-Amarna tablet no. 3 that “daughters of the king of Egypt are never given to others” is not pertinent for these late and degenerate dynasties. There is indeed