106 G, MASPEKO, 



No. 59 |1|]_^^ Ht:£^ larza.* The two names have already 

 figured in the lists of Thoutmos III, ^ ^-—Q | "^^^ Magdilou 



(No. 71) and [jfl "^i"^ (No. 69), and are now el-Medjdel 

 and Kharbet lerzah. There is therefore great likelihood 

 that part at least of the names Avliich immediately precede 

 these two belonged to places near Kharbet lerzah and el- 

 Medjdel. No. 56 I] ^ ^^ I] "^ Cir^i^i Adimaf has been identi- 

 fied by Brugsch with the land of Edom, which Rouge does 

 not deny.J The comparison, blameless from a philological 

 point of view, falls of itself when we remember that our lists 

 do not contain the names of extensive countries, but only 

 the designation of features of the land, towns, or villages. 

 [1 3\ ^^ Q "^ r^./-^ Adouma must then here indicate a town 

 which was called nt2"Tt>! the red, or n^Ti;^ the field, like one of 

 the villages of the tribe of Naphtali, or like one of the five 

 accursed towns n^lh^. The only modern name which can be 



set beside Adouma is that of Beit-Timeh L^ '>.::^sj, a large 

 village situated to the east of lerzah, where Guerin mentions 

 the existence of Roman or Byzantine ruins :§ the site will 

 very well suit the relative position of names in the list, and 

 the modern orthography may strictly be deduced from the 



ancient. No. 58 |^'^.g^ ^|\ t^^ Zalouraim, is a plural of 

 the words UTl, shade, but cannot be identical with the station 

 n^i?^^!^ Zalmonah of the itinerary of the Hebrews in the 

 desert, as Brugsch would have it : || the vicinity of such 

 names as Migdol and lerzah does not authorize us to go 

 down so far to the south in this part of our Hst. We find 

 no longer in the country any name which recals that of 

 Zaloumim, but the word itself is expressive, and may recal 

 the shades of the gardens which surround el-Medjdel : a site 



* The restoration lerza, which I proposed in 1880 {Zeitschrift, 1880, 

 p. 46), has been confirmed by the examination of the original text, 

 {Recueil, T. VII, p. 100). 



t Champollion, Monuments, Texte, T. II, p. 116) read ']^'~~ 



{cfr. Zeitscrift, 1880, p. 46) : the wall really has Adima, with a 

 Brugsch said {Geogr. Ins., T. II, pi. xxiv). 



I Brugsch, Geogr. Ins., T. II, p. 66-67 ; E. de Eougc, Memoire sur 

 VOrigine de V Alphabet phenicien, p. 53. 



S Guerin, Jvde'e, T. II, p. 127-128. 



II Brugsch, Geogr. Ins,, T. II, p. 67. 



