104 G. MASPERO, 



frequent iii Jewish nomenclature to surprise us here, and the 

 final 'T^^ nou occurs in g > Loudni, for example, for Loud. 



I have already rejected the conjecture of Brugcsch, Bit- 

 Ti'j^ounou = Beth-Tappouah, nisn'jn"'!!.* Blau only admitted 

 it after Brugsch assured him that he had found the equi- 

 valent of final n on the stone. f I have ascertained that 



this n does not exist really, and that the wall bears ( > n 



not ( ^ '~' V \ °^' ^-— ' ° V X' ^^^^ ^^^^ absence of this letter 



suffices to render the comparison of the two names impos- 

 sible. The parallel with Tephon, Topho of the 1st book of 

 Maccabees IX, 50, is only admissible if this unknown Tephon 

 is not a Grecized form of Beth-Tappouakh, Tappouakh.| If 

 the name ^^Ul-V J Deir Doubban § may be considered as 

 arising from a caprice of popular etymology, which has sub- 

 stituted the word j^lJj for an ancient name BH-Toupou, 

 Toupoiinou may have occupied the site which the fellahs call 

 after that fashion. The Abila of No. 40 has disappeared. 



The great gap which w^e notice after Abila accounts for 

 no less than twelve cartouches, of which two only admit of 

 restoration. Brugsch has already completed (No. 4(5) 



^^UUiii as ^^Uyi^l Bit-r'aboutinmrn^:i;\\ 



Blaii afterwards thought of restoring it as ^"^ I i O -^^ 

 Bit-T'abiro, which he affirmed to be 'li!i"r^"»n Beth-Zour of 

 Judah.lF Yet, if we have sometimes a £) oua where the 



* Maspero, Sur Ics Xoms dc la Liste dc Thoutmos IllqvJon pent rapporter 

 d la Jii-de'e, in the Transactions of the Victoria Institi'te, Vol. XXII, 

 p. 167-68. 



t Blaa, Siscuis Zng, in the Z.d.d.Jl., T. XV, p. 238. "Das schliessende 

 A' nach Brugsch's miindlicher Mittheilung wirklich von ilim nachtraglich 

 auf dem Steine gefunden worden ist." 



I Maccabees I, ix, 50. Similarly in the name of Ka(papT6(f)a which 

 Ruffiuus appears to have read in Josejjhus (de Bello, V, 4) in the place of 

 Ka(papT6tia (Reland, Pala;stina, T. II, p. 692). Neubauer {G e'ographie du 

 Talmud, p. 112) is inclined to recognize here Tapponakh, which hinders 

 me from comparing it with our Bit-Tovpou. 



§ Robinson, Biblical Researches, T. II, \>. 2-354, 421, who is inclined 

 to recognize in this place the site of Gatli-.Rimmon ; cfr. Gueriu Jude'e, 

 T. II, p. 104-6. 



li Brugsch, Geogr. Ins., T. II, p. 65. 



U Blau, Sisaqs'Zug, in the Z.d.<l}f., T. XV, p. 238-9. On the authority 

 of Blau, Brugsch would have adopted the identitication with Beth-Zour. 



