Endnote 3 – Earliest Aramaic Inscription Uncovered in Syria

An inscription of Adad-Nirari II describing his campaign in Syria in 894 B.C. refers to Sikanu as being situated at the source of the Habor River. (See Albert Kirk Grayson, Assyrian Royal Inscriptions, Part 2, Vol. II in Records of the Ancient Near East [Otto Harrassowitz, 1976] p. 90).