100 Ct. maspero, 



renders letter for letter a derivative of the root "i"ii^ amplus 

 fnif, doubtless "^'''li^!, amplus, j^otens* This name Addiron, 

 Addir, presents so close a consonance with the Arabic ^.^^vSl 

 al-deir, ed-deir, that it may be confounded with one of the 

 numerous deirs which figure on our modern maps. Having 

 regard to the position Avhicli it holds in the list, I am 



tempted to recognize it in the ^^^jl^ ''^j-^ Kharbet-Deirdn which 

 the English map slieAvs at some distance north of el-M6ghar. 

 The cartouche No. 30 is destroyed with the exception ot 

 the sign ^^^:^^ , which tells us nothing. The series which begins 

 bej^ond, and which is broken after No. 40 by a long gap, 

 oflers us towards the end a name (No. 38) JJ^T [j %. )J-i 



\^:C^ SJiaouJicu Avhicli is written Iq] _^ V Saoiika in the list of 

 Thoutraos III (No. (ID) : it is the Shokoh of the Judsean plain, 

 now Kharbet-Shouweikeh.t The names comprised between 

 laoud-ham-melek and Shaouka must then range themselves 

 more or less regularly between el-Yahoudi^-eh and Kharbet- 



Shouweikeh. For the rest, No. 35, which is mutilated 0?IM^Tf 



||vrfv:^|j y' t^y'^-^^Ci^:^, may be restored with certainty in 



11^^^^^^"^ ^''ouhama, Avhich is the (No. 68) 



[In 8 ^^^^ Touhamu, laouhmd, of the campaigns of ThoutmosIII : 



now laouhama is, as Saulcy has shewn,$ el-Kheimeh, 

 (i^j^H- This restoration permits us to divide the series into 

 two sections, one of four names from laoud-ham-melek to 

 laouhama, one of five from laouhama to Shaouka and 

 beyond. The four names which compose the former 

 section are unhappily not easy to identify. No. 31 



[1 ^^^^ /=:= Haianim, Hianim, appears as a plural form 

 XT'IT} ot a word derived from the root ^^n? projyitius fuit, 

 favit alicui; it is the same in meaning as ]^n"il*'ZL of Dan or 

 Judah, and I am disposed to compare it with Kharbet- 



Hannounah <i". .^^ h <.. situated in the hills to the east of 

 ■ > -J 



* Brugsch, Oeogr. Ins., T. II, p. 62. 

 t Brugsch, Geogr. Ins., T. II, p. 64. 



% F. de Sanlcy, Lcttre a 21. Chahas, in tlie MeJanqe.t dWrdieologie 

 <'gtipt!enne, T. I, ]).' 122-12:3. 



