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that the important towns of Judah or of Phihstia whose 

 names have not been mentioned, Ascalou, Ashdod, Gath, 

 Gezer, Hebron, Jericho, &c., did not figure there in fact. 

 The hsts of Thoutmos III, which are intact, present so many 

 omissions of this kind, that I should be quite ready to beheve, 

 for my part, that they were lacking really in that of Sheshonq, 

 and that the cartouches noAv destroyed may not originally 

 have contained, for the most part, any names but those of 

 insignificant localities as obscure as those whose memorial 

 has been preserved to us. Sheshonq had a definite surface 

 of wall to cover, and Avanted for that purpose a determinate 

 number of names. The despatches of his army and the 

 reports of prisoners or of allies furnished him the number of 

 which he had need. We will say that the scribes had less 

 the intention to enumerate the principal towns of their new 

 conquest than to mark its outline : the places which they 

 chose form round Jerusalem and the block of the country 

 of Judah a sort of circle which seems to follow pretty exactly 

 the frontier of the kingdom. Many of them are quite un- 

 known, others are only identified under all reserve with 

 some Hebrew or Arabic names ; the smaller number are 

 placed on the map in an indubitable manner. My work is 

 here but provisional ; I hope to resume it hereafter, or, if I 

 am unable, others will take it up and carry it further. 



The Chaieman (Professor E. Hull, LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S.)-— 

 Our thanks are due in the first place to M. Maspero, the 

 author of this paper, which is one, as you can judge for your- 

 selves, of considerable difficulty and I'esearcb ; in the next place 

 to Mr. Pinches, who has read it so ably ; and, I Lave also 

 to ask you to return your thanks to the member who has been 

 kind enough to translate it from the original French, viz., the 

 Rev. H. G. Tomkins, of whose translation of M. Maspero's foi'mer 

 papers on the names on the List of Thofhnes III (see vols, xx and 

 xxii) the author said, " il etait aussi fidele et aussi elegante que 

 possible." (Applause.) I will now ask that tfie communications 

 received in regard to this paper may he read. 



