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el-Moghar,* some distance S.E. of Yebuali. This group of 

 ascertained positions permits us to reject, a priori, the identi- 

 fications proposed for (No. 25) ^"^^^^d^c^ Qadoutini, 

 by Champolhon, with QtiS^iy Ethani of Judah,t by Brngsch and 

 Eongc with rii?3"lip Kedemoth of Renben.J Blan thinks of 

 the town Adithaim D^'riHii^, which should be somewhere in 

 the neighbourhood, and I have formerly believed that I 

 could accept this identification : the transcription A Q for ^ 

 may in fact be justified by the example of a ^ |^ "^^ ^ ^^^'^ 

 Qazatou, Gaza, n"fi^.§ It should always be noticed that in 

 names where the Hebrew y tends to the pronunciation of 

 Arabic c, the Greek versions and Vulgate have commonly 

 a 7, g, as in Td^a, Fat, 'Ayya't = '^^', "^^^n, TaSep = 

 'TjTh'l^r^^ Bee4>oy6p = -^ii^Q-n^i, &c. ; now □ ^rynV, is never 

 transcribed TaScda'tp,, but 'AStOat/jb, which seems to show 

 that in this word the initial letter is ^ pure without the 

 tendency towards c, and this leads me to reject the equiva- 

 lence of D''ri"'li^ Adithaim and Zl^^^^c^^^^^ Qadoutim 

 Besides, the hieroglyphic group transcribed in Hebrew letters 

 gives us a form D'^S^"iri fi'om l^l^l incisio, sulcus, tnrnia, 

 agmen militum, which obliges us to consider it as having been 

 correctly marked by the scribe and by the sculptors of 

 Karnak. The modern equivalent of this name Avould be, 

 with omission of the plural termination □"] and substitution 



of — for ;i, a word Djedid or Djedoud, wdiich would infalli1)ly 



confuse itself with the adjective S:Sj>-, new: the Djoudiudehs 

 which we meet with in many places in our maps are too far 

 from Aialon and from Bethhoron to enable us to compare 

 them with our Qadoutim or Qadoudim. This place should be 

 found between Bet-our and Yalo, probably towards the point 

 where the road joining these two towns clears the Wady 



* The site of el-Moghar, proposed for Makkedah by MM. Warren 

 {Palestine Exploration Fund i^uart. >Stat., 1875, p. 181) and Conder ((^?/ar^. 

 ^t., 1875, p. 165-167), is the most probable of all those that have been 

 thought of at present. 



t Champollion, 2fon., Tcxtc, T. II, p. 114. 



X Brvigsch, Geogr. Ins., T. II, p. 01 ; E. de Eouge, Mtmoire sur VOrigine, 

 p. 53, 91.' 



§ Blau, Sisaqs Zv.g, in the Z.d.dJf., XV, p. 237; Maspero, in llie 

 Zeitschrift, 1880, p. 45. 



