THE LIST OF SHESHONq AT KAKNAK. 105 



HebreAvs puts a 1, we have never a J for a Hebrew \ and 

 ^irn^i would be transcribed ^^ ] l\ -^ not ^^ ] I [] 

 J _2s>_ The copies of Champolhon, Roselhni, and Lepsius 

 differ sHghtly from that of Brugsch, and I have myself been 

 able to verify the original text as ^"^q| j J^^MMi"^^"^-* 

 The only possible restoration is that of a M differently written 

 and vocalized, either "^^ |J aHhI X^'^V ^^"^^ °^' 



Zabividifi a regular plural which may come either from l^^?, 

 wolf, Q'^ZllS!t'n''l Beth-Zebim, the house of uwlve.?, or even from 

 i^^n^ hi/wna, DTO-^"n^l Beth-Zeboim, the house of hjamas: the 

 tribe of Benjamin had similarly a valley of hyajnas, D'^i^l^JH '^5. 

 No. 47 occurs under the form ^i|;|'^^^^j where only one 

 long sign is wanting between ^z3^ and the eagle ^. By 

 restoring J we should have the equivalent of ^p'iS, star, but 

 this restitution, attractive as it may be, is unlikely ; the 

 Jj is never followed by \ in our list, and the final [j"^ on 

 the contrary is here so frequent that the reading ^[ [j "^ t:~r 

 Koka forces itself on us. The name answers to the Hebrew 

 ^3,(132, roof, surface of the altar, and Avill apply very well to 

 a village situated on the terraced top of a hill. I will not 

 offer any conjectm-e as to the situation of these two places ; 

 the lacuna which contains them is too large to enable us to 

 determine even the direction in which we ought to seek 

 them. The list begins again with No. 52, and continues, not 

 Avithout mutilations, till No. 58. The last two numbers, 57 

 and 58, have suffered slightly, but are restored with certainty: 



No. 58 ?i?iS^=^^n:^t is JxflS'^ni^l^/(/(f//o;?, and 



* Maspero, in the Recueil, T. VII, p. 100. ^ ^ 



t Champollion {Monuments, Texte, T. II, p. 116) has §|^§ [j C^^^ , 

 Rosellini (J/. *S'^., pi. cxlviii), |p ^^ ^ [>^V1 , Lepsius {Benkm., Ill, 

 bl. 252), Brugsch {Geogr. Ins., T.U, pi. xxiv), |y| -^^ |^ [^£^ . I have 



restored from all these copies the reading ■=«^\^ S V\ D f^^"^ 



{Zeitschnft, 1880, p. 46); the wall at Karnak has .f|^ S _ r^^M 



(Maspero, in the i?ecHei7, T. VIT, p. 100;, which proves that the restoration 

 was exact, 



