32 George Dahl, 



it collapsed)', the most striking feature in the neighborhood of 

 Tantura was a high tower, partly in ruins, situated on a rocky 

 promontory north of the present town. This was clearly visible at 

 every point from Carmel to Caesarea". The tower was called 

 el-Burj or Khirbet Tanti'ira, and in shape resembled somewhat the 

 peaked cap or horn (tantur). Doubtless this, the most character- 

 istic and dominating feature of the vicinity, gave to the place its 

 name, Tantura. With the changes in the name of the peaked cap 

 itself to tartur and tortur^, the name of the ruins and town changed 

 accordingly. 



The ancient name of the town may have played a part in hxing 

 the modern name Tantura\ There is a marked resemblance in 

 sound between Tantura (or Tartilra or Tortilra) and Dora, the usual 

 Greek form of the ancient name. In the Semitic languages the 

 dentals d and t sometimes pass over into one another*, so that Dora 

 might become Tora\ In fact the Tabula Peutingeriana^ actually 

 gives the name as Thora, Avhich is equivalent to Tora. This would 

 indicate that at a very early period (-ith Cent. A. D.?) the name was 

 sometimes pronounced with emphatic t. That the distinction 

 between *> and Jc is not always strictly observed in this very town 

 is proved by the fact that Dr. Earth plainly heard the natives })ro- 

 nounce the name of the town as Dandora". It appears quite prob- 



1 Schumacher in P.E.F.Q., 1895, p. 113. A. W. Cook, Palestine. 3:172 

 (1901) refers to the tower as though it were still standing. Baed. (4) (1906), 

 pp. 231 f . makes the same error. 



2 Murray, Handbook fl875), p. 358: P.E.F.Q., 1873, pp. 99 f.: Baed. (4) 

 (1906), p. 281. 



3 See p. 30. 



•* The theory of Gesenius {Thes. 831) that Tartura or Tortura is to be inter- 

 preted !v«t> 55-1^' I "mens Dorae", is not at all probable. So Riehni. Hand- 



loorterbuch I, 285. 



"Wright, Comp. Gram., p. 53 ; Gesenius-Buhl, under "j , J3 , j~| : Lane 

 1819. In Turkish both c> and jc can be pronounced either as d or t (Zenker, 

 Turk.-Arab.-Pers. Handicorterbuch, pp. 418, 588. 



^ Cf . i3LjNt> = ('"«) Qnpiax-a (Fraenkel, Aram. Fremdiv., p. 240). See also 

 Ewald, AusfiihrJiches Lehrbuch (1870), ^47 C. 



'' Ed. Desjardins, Seg. IX. The Tabula Peut. is probably of the 4th Cent. 

 A. D. 



** Ritter, Erdkiuide XVI, 607-612; Riehm, Handicorterbuch I, 28o. In 

 Germany the Saxons in like manner often substitute d for t. 



