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y .i.': , and it is really 1^^ which alone can answer to the 



Egyptian term. <-=> ^^^ zl dmaqou is p?OV, the valley ; 

 o ^^ "^ ' ^^ shodinaou is an Egyptian term which seems 



to mean the canals, the ditches. As to BU j ^g^^^^^ 

 Shabbalout, where Brugsch has thought to recognize JlvCll?, 

 the jjlain, which is impossible, J ^ answering to S, never 

 to 5, — it is n^ilip « stream of ivater, a river, a torrent.* All 

 these words are in perfect accord with the natiu'e of the 

 country where the localities are placed which they serve to 

 designate : as the names which the lists of Thoutmos III 

 bring to our knowledge, Abilou, Karmona, Ganotou, shew 

 us the fertility of the central territory of Judah,t so do those 

 of the list of Sheshonq bear witness to what was the territory 

 of Simeon. 



When we have taken account of the preceding obser- 

 vations, the number of sites becomes perceptibly limited: 

 from No. (35 to No. 110, from thirty to forty-live cartouches 

 are lacking.^ Here they are in the same order in which 

 Sheshonq has given them to us. (Nos. 65-6()) ^o<=>^ 

 c^— 1 'k i k fl \^^ °l^ P^^n, the Valley of Azama, 

 that is to say probably the valley where lay the town 

 of Azama, and the town itself: site unknown. (No. 67) 



(1 W\ "^ (liMib^ Anara or Anala, not Anali or Anari, 



for the fashion in which \\ is cut makes me believe that the 

 sculptor, not having kept room enough for the [j"^ final, 

 was content to insert I) before \:,y:^ . This name is one of 

 those, very rare they are, of which I do not find the Semitic 

 equivalent. Perhaps it contains a mistake, and we should 

 lead Aloima, which Avill give us a regular form )i7t^, a^i oak. 



Anvliow the site remains unknown. (Nos. 68-69) A^ 



* Maspero, in the Zeitschrift, 1880, p. 47. 



t See some observations on this subject in the Transactiuns of the 

 Victoria Institute, Vol. XXIII, p. 67 and 74. 



X Henceforth I shall rarely cite Blau, since he takes each cartouche 

 for a complete name, the perpetual repetition of words of which I speak 

 has led him into almost as many errors as there are cartouches remaiiiiiio 

 to the end of our list. 



