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el-Yalioudi}eli,* near to which the English map marks some 

 niius.t The name following- (No. 32) <:r;> iJx Atana, Alouna, 



would be transcribed in Hebrew letters 17^,*, pi^) and con- 

 sequently cannot be either the I'Elon p7''i^ of Dan, or Egion 

 P ''?V' as Brugsch$ and Blau : § would have it : \\q liave 



here a locality bearing the same name as tlie - ^ - ^ "^ of 

 Thoutmos III, where I have recognized a variant of the 

 Hebrew tVyy, superior, siiprema, siimmus. The present 

 nomenclature gives us many ^^£- Alius, of which the ortho- 

 graphy agrees perfectly with that of our town. The only 

 one whose site can rigorously agree is that which the English 



map calls Kharbet Ouady Alin ^,jJ,^t_f j^jtO. :i-, and which is 



to the north of Shouweikeh, near 'Ain Shems, where the 

 Beth-Shemesh of Judah is generally placed ; yet the space 

 will be too great between Kharbet Hanuounah and Kliarbet 

 Ouady Alin for me to venture any affirmation on it. Brugsch 



reads (No. 33) '^^^ -2s& ^ ^\ r^^^ Biloma, and identifies it 



with □J?^^. Bileam of Manasseh, in spite of the absence of 



y in the Egyptian transcription. || In fact Champollion, 



Rosellini, and Lepsius all give f*^^ -2^^ y ^Q\:^^2^ Biromam, 



Bilomam, and this is the readiug which can still be deciphered 

 on the wall. Biroumim or Biiomnim is in fact the regular 



plural of a word derived either from the root qSs. constrinxit, 



clausit, or from the root 0*^3. frcmuit : 'D'^iyVQ. which denotes 



the name of a sort of embroidered fabric, is here reproduced 

 letter for letter. Unhappily I cannot find on any map any 

 modern name which recalls that of Biroumim or Biloumim. 



\ \^ , L-i , (No. 34) Zaklipoutir or Zacji/joudil is known 



Ah J>^ S=5 r^^xri \ / J. ' 



* Guci'in, Samarie, T. TI, jj. 74. 



t Osburn {Eg?/pt, Iter Testimony, p. IGO) has ccim])ared Haianiui Mitli 

 DJn *5, the valley of Hiunom. Without speaking of the topographical 



difficulties which this ideutification presents, \l/ t- never answers to |^ in 

 Hebrew. " 



I Brugsch, Geogr. Ins., T. II, p. 63. 



^ Blau, Sisaqs Zrg, in the Z.d.dJf., T. XV, ]i. 2:35. 



II Brugsch, O'eogr. Jns., T. II, p. G4. 



