J 20 G. MASPEKO, 



ni^i^'il"^! Bethauotli of Judab, now Bet Anoim, !'.'.> 



-: •• • !> 



j^(»Jv.i c:--nA.'. Ber-Loiizali ought to be found some way S.E. 

 of this site, on the slope of the mountains which descends 

 to the Dead Sea. 



Bit-Anat is the last name of the list which we can set on the 

 map with certainty. Besides, no more exists than two cartouches 

 intact, and the remains, more or less legible, of half a dozen 



cartouches. (No. 125) EH^'^^S Shalhatou, belongs 



to the root HvlD, misit, whence comes the name 11711?, VO^ 



of the pool of Siloeh. The group ^= which ends the word 

 is the plural toou of the word ^^n" to, land, and could scarcely 

 be employed here, in the transcription of a foreign word, 



except to render the syllable ton, toou: as ^^ )j/ ^^ 

 Shalaha furnishes us already with the three letters of the 

 root n^tr, the final ton is a grammatical inflexion, and the 



equivalent of | Q Tl g > T, which serves to write the 



termination of the feminine plural, nilly^^ .'<j)wuts^ answers 

 exactly to ShalaJiatou. The book of Joshua makes known to 

 us a town of analogous name, D'^nT'U? (armed jnen), situated 



in the southern part of Judah.* The modern site of 

 Shalaliatou is not known to me. (No. 12(i) (1^ 



JDzi^^ 



Alomdten or Armdten is a name composed of [I Qj\ «=rr> T^^^ 



and r-^v^A^ , which may answer to Tlt^ JIuIdin, or to anv 



other form of the root "[''1 repere, modeniri ; I have cited Y^^ 

 in preference, because it is the name of a town of the tribe of 

 Judah.f As Middin was in the vicinity of the Dead Sea, 

 that is to say in the region where we know that the last 

 cartouches of our list are situated, Ave may ask ourselves 

 whether it is not identical Avith our Alamaten ; Middin would 

 then be an abbreviation of a more complete form el-Middin. 

 We do not knoAV from any other source the situation of 

 j\liddin : Saulcyt alone fixes it at 'i^^^ .^i Qasr Mirdeh, the 



■* Josliuii XV, 32. 

 t Joshua XV, 61. 



t F. de Saulcy, Dictionnaire topogru^hique de la Terre-Sainte, j). 223 

 8.V. Meddin. 



