40 George Dalil, 



As in Josh. 12:23; 17:11; Judg. 1:27; 1 Chron. 7:29; Doris 

 mentioned in this latter list in close connection with Megiddo. It 

 would seem that these cities were connected in a way that led 

 naturally to their being mentioned together. The fact that Dor 

 appears in the list with these other cities of northern Syria makes it 

 practically certain that the city is the one we are discussing, and 

 not some other of the numerous cities with that name. The writ- 

 ing with a medial breathing ' corresponds to the more cor- 

 rect "1}^"1. Apparently Dor is at the time of this inscription 

 (sometime before 605 B. C.) a town of enough importance to be 

 worth enumerating among the principal cities of the West. The 

 town is not unknown in the land of Assyria. 



Horamer is inclined to identify the city Zakkalu (Zak-ka-lu-u) of 

 4R34, No. 2 with Dor. This document is a letter written by a 

 high Babylonian official to an Assyrian^. In it mention is twice 

 (lines 41, 45) made of " '''"Zak-ka-lu-ii," where one of them had 

 waited (in vain ?) a whole day for the other. The identification of 

 Dor with Zak-ka-lu-ii is, liowever, very precarious. The name as 

 we have it in Egyptian references' is written wath simple k (3) and 

 not as here, with k (p). Furthermore, we have no evidence that Dor 

 was ever called Zakkara or the " Zakkalite town." Hommel's con- 

 tention* that the name Dor is derived from Takkar might, if true, 

 indicate that Dor is the town referred to in this letter; but it has 

 been shown that his derivation of the name lacks all semblance of 

 probability. Until Ave find good evidence that Dor was also called 

 Zakkara or "the Zakkalite town", we must omit 4R34, No. 2 from 

 the list of references to Dor in Assyrian or Babylonian literature. 



' Geschichte, pp. 432 f . : Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, 

 (1895) 17:203: Anc. Heb. Trad., pp. 233 f. 



- Tiele {Bab-Assyr. Geschichte, p. 145), however, holds that the letter is 

 from an Assyrian to a Babylouian prince. 



3 Breasted, Anc. Rec. IV, p. 278 (T'-k'-r), pp. 86 ff. (T'-k-k'-r'); Miiller, As. 

 u. Eur., p. 388 ; Hommel, Grundriss, pp. 27 ff. 



* Grundriss, I. c. ; see above p. 20. 



