118 G. MASPEEO, 



two inclosures of Ai-acl, and „ ""^ -^^ciSiail^^ "^^ 



.Rabbit Aradaiy '^'^V. ^5"^- The two inclosures of Arad were 

 in the vicinity of the town of Arad, and perhaps a more com- 

 plete exploration of the country will help us in our time to 

 discover the traces. I scarcely need recall * that Rabbat 

 Arad is T\V, of the Bible, now Tell Arad, ^\^z Jj . (No. 112) 

 ll r^^'fe'^^ ^^-^ourahna, appears to me to be identical with 

 7i;5pn"?"' lerahmeel, of the tribe of Judah, the Negeb of which 

 was pillaged by David. /i^ is wanting at the end of the 

 Egyptian name, but it is also wanting at the end of the 

 Arabic name Ouady Rahaimeh, tUAr^ S\y which has suc- 

 ceeded to the Hebrew name : the omission of the divine 

 name, which has permitted the Arabs to transcribe as they 

 have done, is doubtless a primitive occurrence, since we find 



TVyr\y laourahma. No. HI J ^^__3 c^=^=^ Nebatout, placed 

 between Rabbat-Arad and laourahma, should be sought 

 between Tell Arad and Oued-Rahaimeh, but none of the 

 names knoAvn hitherto enough resemble it to g-ive room for 

 identification. Nabatout appears to be a plural nit;3^2 of a 

 feminine word Htpi?, which would be derived from the root 

 1013 conspe.vit^ vidit. 



Three cartouches have entirely disappeared after Nebatout. 

 No. IIG <~='t0 ^\ W0 ^^'''^' ' • '''•••) is too mutilated to yield 



anything. No. 117 11 _^^b^ Adora-shircm, Adora 



the little, by antithesis to the Adora the Great of No. 100, 

 brings us back to the north of lerahmeel and Arad, probably 

 in tire part of the mountain land of Judah which stretches 

 south of Hebron, but I cannot pretend exactly to determine 

 the site. No. 118, read by Brugsch ^^l^c^^^ Pabia,^ 

 but whose first sign is left by Champollion undecided, has 

 appeared to me to be rather ^^[^'^'^^ Zabia : nothing 

 is in fact more easy than to confuse a damaged ^ with a ^, 



* Brugsch, who was the first to recognize Arad, has separated from it 



the cartouche ^^ ^ ^i! ^^ which he reads Lebat, and identifies with 

 nixa'? n^3 But-Lebaoth of Simeon (Brugsch, Geogr. Ins., T. II, p. 69-70). 

 t Brugsch, Geogr. Ins., T. II, pL xxiv. No. 118. 



