Archevites

'The people of Erech,' a town identified with the Bab. Uruk (modern War/ca), on the left bank of the Euphrates. It is mentioned in Gn 10i'>, between Babel and Accad, as the second city of importance iu Ximrod's kingdom ; and its name occurs, in the inscriptions, along with that of Accad, as one of the principal towns in N. Babylonia. Some of the inhabitants of Erech were ' deported ' as colonists to Samaria by king Assurbanipal (668-620).

Their name is mentioned in Ezr 4'^ along with dwellers in Babylon ; and the ' deporta- •• rnriirinhl. 1S9S, hij tion ' of Archevites most probably indicates that Erech sided with Babylon in tlie revolt of Samas- sum-ukin against the Assyr. king (cf. Ryle, Ezra and yehemiah). H. E. RYLE.