94 G. MASPERO, 



Brugscli in the second edition of his " History of Egypt,"* 

 has since remained ahnost classic in the science, and most of 

 the identifications which he had reached have been admitted 

 without discussion by archfeologists and geographers.! A 

 first examination, made in 1880, shewed me, however, that 

 Blan had taken too great hberties with the outward form of 

 the names, and had obtained many of his approximations 

 only at the price of inversions and alterations too numerous to 

 be permissible : I have since endeavoured to prove that the 

 Egyptian letters, transcribed rigorously in Hebrew letters, 

 give almost everywhere the regular Hebrew forms, and 

 therefore need neitiier changes nor corrections.^ I desire, in 

 the present paper, to collect, after nearly ten years of fresh 

 research, the partial results at which I have arrived, and to 

 submit them, Avith due reserve, to the criticism of my 

 brethren in Egyptolog3\ I have ascertained the text by 

 comparison of all the copies published since the beginning 

 of the century, and by collation of Champollion's copy with 

 what still remains of the original on the wall at Karnak. § 



The first ten cartouches AA^ere filled by the general forms 

 which Ave meet with at the starting of most geographical 

 lists. Although a certain number of them are quite destroyed, 

 we may restore them Avith certainty : (No. 1) ==== 1, © To- 



qiynditi, the country of the south. (No. 2) "SJK, To-mildti, 



the country of the North, (No. 3) ||| oS, the tribes situated 



between the Nile and the Red Sea, from the latitude of 

 Assouan to that of Siout, (No. 4) p ^^^-^ ^>^^ , the Taltonou, 

 the Berber tribes beyond the Oasis of the Theba'id, corres- 

 ponding to the Anion of the last cartouche, (No. 5) '^ [j, the 



Bedouins Avho Ha'C between the Nile and the Red Sea, from 

 the latitude of Siout to the neighbourhood of the Ouady 

 Toumilat, (No. 6) ^M\ ^ ^^. the Berber tribes who occupy 

 the Oases to the Avest of the Birket Keroun, parallel to the 

 Pittiou Bedouins, (No. 7) ^^ ^=^ g^, the Montiou, the 



* Brugsch, Geschichte JEgyj'^icns, p. 660-663. 



t It is from Blau's Memoir that Mariette has borrowed that strange 

 hypothesis of Egyptian army-corps manoeuvring as modern army-corps 

 do {Lcs Lisfcs des Pylones de Karnal; p. 46-48). 



J Maspero, Azotes su7- dife'renis Points de Grammaire et d'Uistoire, in 

 the Zeitschrift, 1880, p. 44-49. 



^ Maspero, iZewj'on desListes geographiqxies de Thoutmos III,x>. 100-101. 



