THE NAME DOR. 



Dor appears in the Old Testament under the two forms : *1{<1* 

 and 111 '. In the Eshmunazar' inscription "^J^l is used. The 

 Assyrian* inscriptions witness to the form Du-'-ru (or Du-'u-ru) ; 

 the Egyptian Papyrus Golenischeff writes D-'ira*. Among Greek 

 writers Aa>pos and Atopa are the forms in which the name most fre- 

 quently occurs; but Awpa and Aovpa^ are also found. Pliny* uses 

 Doron (or Dorum), and the Tabula Peutingeriana' gives the name 

 as Thora. The form Awpos is found mainly in the earlier writers; 

 Awpa later becomes universal. Nevertheless Stephan of Byzantium, 

 writing as late as the fifth century A. D., prefers the older form 

 Awpos. The following authors give the name of this town as Awpos : 

 Scylax (c. 500 B. C), Apollodorus (c. 140 B. C), Alexander of 

 Ephesus (c. 50 B.C.) and Charax (c. 160 A. D.)". To this same 

 category belongs Pliny's Doron or Dorum". Ao>pa (variants Acopa 

 and Awpa), the second and later of these two forms, appears in 1 

 Mace. 15: 11, 13, 25; it is used by Artemidorus" (c. 100 B.C.), by 

 Claudius lolaus" (c. 50 A. D.), by Josephus, by Ptolemaus'* 

 (between 127 and 151 A. D.), in the Clementine Recognitiones" 

 (prob. c. 225 A. D.), by Eusebius (O. S. <*> 250*'), Jerome {ibid. 

 115"), Hierocles** (6th century ?), in the list of Bishops in Le Qiiien'', 



'Josh. 17:11 ; 1 Kings 4:11. 



» Josh. 11:2 ; 12:23 ; Jdg. 1:27 ; 1 Chron. 7:29. 



3 Line 19 ; C.T.S.,I,S; Lidzbarski, Taf. IV*. 



* II R. 53, no. 1, rev. line 40 ; ibid. no. 4, line 57. 



' Muller, Asien u. Eur., p. 388. 



« 1 Mace. 15:11, 13, 25. 



' Polybius, Historiae, V : 66. 



8 Natural History, 5:17. 



' Ed. Desjardins, Segment IX. 

 '** The three last named in Steph. Byz. s.v. Mopo^. 

 » Nat. Hist. 5:17. 

 " Steph. Byz. s.v. Awpoc. 



^^ Ibid.; for the corre«;t form of the name (i. e. lolaus), see C. Muller, 

 Fragm. Hist. Grace., IV, 362-364. 

 1* V, 15:5 = Ed. Didot, V, 14:3. 

 '* Clem. Recogn., IV: 1. 

 '* Synecdeme, ed. Parthy, p. 43. 

 " Oriens Christianus III, 574 flf. — of the 5th and early 6th centuries. 



