372 I'lWVEEDlNGIS OF TUI'J NATIONAL MUSEUM. vou 10. 



Geth, which is also called Gitta, one of the five capital cities. — Bibli- 

 cal Gath, one of the five royal or princely cities of the Philistines, 

 Joshua xiii, 3; I Samuel vi, 17, etc. 



lahnel, which is also called lamnia. — Jahneel, Joshua xv, 1 1 ; Jab- 

 neh, II Chronicles xxvi, 6. Below is, 



Safrea.—^o read by Clermont-Ganneau (PEKQS, 1901, p. 238) 

 and identified by him with modern Safiriyeh. To the right is, 



(Sanctuary) of the holy Jo/ia.— Otherwise unknown. 



5. THE SURROUNDINGS OF THE DEAD SEA. 



Khara Moha. — Biblical Kir Moab, Isaiah xv, 1, modern Kerak, 

 about ten miles from the southeast corner of the Dead Sea. It was 

 an episcopal see.* 



Betomarsea which is also called Maioumas. — Clermont-Ganneau 

 (PEFQS, 1901, p. 2:^9): "Buchlor (Rovne d(^s Etudes Juives, 1901, 

 p. 125) has just domonstratod . . . that Betomarsea is no other than 

 the transcription of Beit Marzeah (comp. Jeremiah xvi, 5),^^ that 

 Marzoiili, or Marzoiha, means, like Maioumas, a great Syrian feast of 

 licentious nature, and that this double denomination must apply in 

 this case on the map to the place where popular tradition located the 

 famous sccMio of the fornication of Irsael, wlion they allowed tliem- 

 selves to be initiated by tlie beautiful daughters of Moab into the 

 impure rites of Bael Peor" ■'* 



Aia. — Jacoby (p. 9.'i) would see it in Ai of Jeremiah xlix, 3, situated 

 not far from Heshbon; Clermont-Ganneau (PEFQS, 1897, p. 220) 

 identifies it with the Aie of Eusobius (OS, p. 10), which the latter 

 places to the east of Areopolis-Rabbath Moab. 



r^arais.— Clermont-Ganneau (PEFQS, 1897, p. 220) suggests 

 modern Khurbet Talha, between Kerak and the Dead Sea. 



Barou. — So is tlio arou on the original road and referred to St. 

 Jerome (OS p, 44), where he says: "There is to the present day an 

 important place near Baaru in Arabia where hot water bubbles up 

 from the ground, <U,('."; compare also Josophus, War, VII, 6, 3, where 

 a place by the name of Baaras is mentioned. 



Dead Sea. — The superscription reads: Salt Sea (see Numbers 

 xxxiv, 3, 12, etc.); Asphalt sea (Josephus, Antiquities, I, 9, 1), and 

 Dead Sea. West of the Dead Sea is, 



Bethsoura Sanctuary of the holy Pliilip. Here it is said the Ken- 

 dake ennuch was baptized. — Refers to the story of Acts viii, 26 and 

 following. The mosaist made of the queen Kandake a people. 

 Bethzur of Joshua xv, 58. 



' Compare Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, 1901, p. 240. 

 ■-' In the Knglish Bible, rendered "house of inoiimlng." 

 ' Compare Numbers, chapter xxv. 



