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 income to the temple. These contracts for such and such supplies annually as well as agreements for annual tribute imply, of course, records by the princes as to what they were due to furnish each year whether for use of the harbor towns or for the temples in Egypt, and the fact that such records were actually kept has highly pertinent illustration in the familiar story of Wenamon. When long after this (1100 B.C) the Egyptian envoy attempted to assert apparently this very right of the temple of Amon over Lebanon, the king of Byblos had the "Journal of his fathers" brought to him and proved that the kings of Egypt, who of old had got cedar from Lebanon, had not received what they got from his father and grandfather as tribute but had paid roundly for it.

And finally and conclusively as to the existence of at least archival collections at this time, remains of two of such