THE LIST OF SHESHONQ AT KAENAK. 107 



8uch as tLat of the village of Plammameh tU'**- Avoiilcl 

 closely suit what we conjecture of Zaloumim, Zelemim. 

 The three preceding numbers ought not to be situated far 



from el-Medjdel. %, nl^ 8() Noup-ilou (No. 53) is com- 

 posed of the final y^, God, and a derivative of the root 

 f)1i (Kjltavif, or fi'ii, eminentia, ^^^, Iochs, editns. The town 

 oft3 ^liNeballat, Beit-Nebala, in the tribe of Benjamin, which 



Blau recognizes here, does not answer to ^i;?pil3 Nouphilou 

 either in orthography or in position :* I do not see elsewhere, 

 between Shoueikeh and el-Medjdel, any name which seems 

 derived from the ancient name and fit to be assimilated to it. 

 g=:s^ JA^ \^ 1 ^^^^ 0^0. 54) Disliati, Donshati, is, in spite of 

 its foreign cast, a Semitic name. It is a feminine form 

 derived fi-om the root ^^T, ^'^1, IL''''"!, terere, conterere, triturare 

 frumentinn; but when this is said,I know no way of locating the 

 town in the land. No. 55 is not only hard to place, but hard 



to decipher. I read it as Champollion did, ^ ^^ '^— ^ ^^ .t 

 It includes the Egyptian mascuUne article ^ j?«, of which 



we have numerous examples in }6\ ^ \\ ^^\ Pa Ihuiala^ 



The sign following is most likely -^^ oirou, the Great, the 

 Chief, which occurs almost as often without as with its final 

 "cz:> in the hieroglyphic texts. "^^ ^^ transcribed hi 



Hebrew gives us ll'iDil, plural of the word riil a j^^'^^^- 

 Osburn has proposed to translate the whole as Jlie prince of 

 the Gaditef<,t and in fact no philological reason prevents our 

 translating thus the first two words ; only the latter certainly 

 does not designate the people of Gad, who had nothing to 

 do with these parts. It would be very pleasant to translate 

 with confidence the chief of Gath, but it does not seem to me 



* Blau, Sisaqs Zug, in the Z.d.d.M., T. XV, p. 240. Brugsch, after 

 haviug recognized the real etymology {(Jeogr. Ins., T. II, p. 65), inclined to 

 recognize in Noup-ilou an equivalent of ?^i!-1iS Pnuel, which answei's 

 neither to the spelling of the name, noi' to the place which it occui)ies in 

 the list of Sheshonq. 



t Champollion, Momiments, Texte, T. II, p. 116. 



X Osburn, Egypt, her Testimony to the TrvAhy \u 162. 



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