I. Name

According to some of our sources Mount Sirion/Siryon is part of the Hermon massif. Deut. 3.9 gives it as the name of the mountain used by the Sidonians, but nevertheless the Amorite designation is Senir. This variant form of the name corresponds to the mountain Saniru being the refuge of Hazaʾel in the inscriptions of Shalmaneser III (E. Michel, WO 1 [1947/1952] 265:6). On the other hand the Hittite designation of the Anti-Lebanon is Šariyana and the same is true for Ug. šryn and Eg. sʒw-r-ı̓-nʒ. According…