And on the arrival of his caravan, for the five talents of copper (the equivalent) in cedar, cypress, tamarisk, (and) myrtle wood, in x and x, in blue and red-purple wool, and in rouge extracted from worms Ili-ittiya shall produce and in the palace to Taya deliver. Seal of Ili-ittiya, the merchant". It may be noted that the source of cedar wood was Syria . The contract stipulates that the merchant pay the purchase price of the woman slave when the caravan returns. This document is interesting for another reason in that it uses the word for Canaan in the sense of red-purple adding evidence that the word for Phoenician came originally from the Greek word for "blood-red" (phoinix). In other words, the ethnicon is traced to the name for the dye and not vice versa as is ordinarily believed.
