i8o GEOLOGY AND HISTORY 



We have here also a note on an obscure passage 

 in the life of Moses, namely, his apparent want of 

 acquaintance with the name Jehovah until revealed 

 to him at Horeb. 1 Now, as reported in Exodus, 

 Moses in that interview addressed God as ' Adon,' 

 which is supposed to be the Hebrew equivalent of 

 ' Aten,' the meaning being Lord. This is a curious 

 incidental agreement with the prevalence of the Aten 

 worship in Egypt, and shows that this name may 

 have been currently used by the Israelites, whose 

 God Moses himself calls Adon, till commanded to 

 use the name Jehovah. 



A second point of contact of Egypt and Pales- 

 tine is in the painting and sculptures of hostile and 

 conquered nations in Egyptian temples and tombs. 

 These were evidently intended to be portraits, and 

 an admirable series of them has been published by 

 Mr. Petrie under a commission from the British 

 Association for the Advancement of Science. By 

 means of these excellent photographs, now before 

 me, we can see for ourselves the physiognomy and 

 form of head of the Amorite, Philistine, Hittite, and 

 many other peoples previously known to us only by 

 name and a few historical facts ; and thus with their 

 correspondence, as preserved in the Tel-el-Amarna 

 tablets, and their pictures as given by Petrie, we 



1 Exodus iii. 16 et seqq. This passage has been often misunder- 

 stood, but it certainly shows that the name Jehovah had become 

 nearly obsolete among the Hebrews in Egypt, and that the name 

 usually given to God was Adon or Aten. 



