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would have no longer anything in common with lehoud of 

 Dan.* In spite of the very high esteem which I have for 

 Herr Max Miiller (of Niiremberg), and although Mr. Le Page 

 Renouf has lent liim the support of his authority, I do not 

 think the objection he has raised against the reading of 



Brugsch is insurmountable. The word ^^\ c^^j contains a 

 troublesome element, the ou _p vvliich follows the two feathers 



tji]^ and which has no business there if we allow the reading 

 T' . so MM. Miiller and le Page Renouf have tried to get quit of 



it by explaining that we need not take it into account. I think 

 on the contrary that we must never neglect it, neither in this 



case nor in other cases Avhere it occurs. The sign l|l] in the 

 beginning of a word appears to have always an a for its 

 inherent vowel, and this a with diphthongal ou, which is some- 

 times expressed, sometimes suppressed, in writing, has given 



in Coptic sometimes ^ or e, sometimes o, (JO : 



AAAAAA 

 AAAAAA 



4h V^^ ~^^' ^"'^"'"'^'' °t' *^e •'^^'^' i^-JW., B., lOJUL, TJL, 



1 <S>^S' ^l-^^^^ S' iaotirou, the river, lepo, T., 

 I^.po, 31., &c. I read then (jH^ci^iJ laoud, not loud, and 

 I think that the hiatus between the a and ou renders the very 

 weak aspirate of H between two vowels, in the same manner 

 that it does in the transcription laoudai in Assyrian texts. 

 W\ ^=^> J^((oud will thus form the transition between the full 

 form of the classic Hebrew m^rT) and the reduced form 'lovBds 

 of the Greeks. I will retain, till further intelligence, the 

 reading laoud-ha-malouk, lehoud-ham-melek, and the identifi- 



Adirov, placed between this locality and Malckeclah, ought 

 then to have its place marked in the plain between el-Yahou- 

 diyeh and Moghar. Blau professes to recognize in it a bad 

 Egyptian version of 17, for, says he, a town so important 

 as Lydda would not be missing in the list of Sheshonq. f 



Brugsch has very justly remarked that (J QA n\ ^ 



* Max Miiller, The supposed name of Judah in the list of Sheshonq, 

 iu the Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archceology, Vol. X, p. 81-83 : 

 after this meiuoir we find (p. 83-86) some Remarls in which M. Le Page 

 Renouf approves the conclusions of M. Miix Miiller. 



t Blau, Sisaqs Zug, iu the Z.d.dJL, T. XV, p. 2.?1. 



