DOR IN ASSYRIAN LITERATURE. 



The town Dor is mentioned, together with other cities of Syria, 

 in an Assyrian geographical list (2R53, No. 1, Rev.). Unfortu- 

 nately this list is only a fragment and we are unable to determine 

 its exact context. Probably it is the eniaraeration of conquests or 

 tributary cities of some Assyrian ruler'. The transliteration of 

 lines 35 to 41 follows": 



line 35 '''" Di-mas-ka (Damascus; 



'''"Kar-ni-ni (?) 



^^'" Ha-ma-at-(ti) (Hamath) 



'^'" Ha-ta-rik-(ka) (Hadrach) 



'^' " Man-su-a-te (Mansuat) 



line 40 '^'"Du-'-ru (Dor) 



^'"Su-bat, ^^'"Ila-ma-a-tu (Zobfi; Chamfith) 

 Dor is written : 



Again in a similar fragmentary list of Syrian cities, whose exact 



purport is unknown, Dor occurs, this time between Damascus and 

 Megiddo (2R53, No. 4)\- 



line 55 '''" Sa-me-ri-na (Samaria) 



•''"Di-mas-ka (Damascus) 



=^i"Du-'-ru (Dor) 



•''"Ma-gi-du-u (Megiddo) 



""^ " Man-su-a-tu (Mansuat) 



line 60 '^'" Si-mir-ra (Zemar)^ 



Here again Dor is written with medial ' (= j^ ). 



' G. Rawlinson {Anc. Monarchies II, p. 397 f.) evidently with this list and 

 the one next to be discussed in mind, names Tiglath-Pileser III as the ruler 

 in question ; he adds that " Dor was even thought of sufficient consequence 

 to receive an Assyrian governor ". The information contained in the two 

 references to the town does not furnish material on which to base either of 

 his deductions. 



' Following Schrader's transliteration in Keilinschriften unci Geschichts- 

 forschung, p. 122. 



^ Ibid., p. 121. 



* The balance of the fragment (lines 61, 62) is broken off. 



