126 G. MASPBRO, 



No. 32. Almia miglit i^erhaps be softened into Elon in Hebrew. 

 The site I think is the modei'n Beit Ello, which, comes in 

 the proper position. 



No. 33. Bilumam or, according to Brugsch, Bilema, I should pro- 

 pose to place at B'altn west of Tell es Sufi. 



No. 34. Zaidi Putir : perhaps the first word is the Aramaic 

 Sadeh, " mountain." The names of the ancient sites often 

 remain at springs, and I would suggest 'Ain Fatir, a spring- 

 in the hills east of the last. The little village of Sidihi is 

 mai'ked on my survey. 



No. 36. BU 'Alemat. The site at Alemeth seems to me rather 

 far east for the places which precede and follow, and, 

 though the question may be one of opinion, I think Beit 

 'Alam fits better for locality. 



No. 37. Kegali might in this case be the ancient Keilah men- 

 tioned on the Tell Amarna tablets, as well as in the Bible : 

 now Kilah. The interchange of g and ain seems, from the 

 tablets, to have occui-red in Amorite speech, which confirms 

 M. Maspero's view as to the word, though not as to the site. 



No. 38. SJiocoJi as proposed by Brugsch in 1879 fits with the 

 preceding. 



No. 39. Bit Tnpn. There appears to have been a town called 

 Tabu not far from Hebron, noticed in the Tell Amarna 

 tablets, and to be placed I think at the ruin Taiijiheh, 

 north-west of Hebron. This would fit for No. 39. The 

 places which, like Deir Dubban (more correctly Beir edh 

 Bhibhdn) are called after a Deir, or " monastery," generally 

 took the name I think in Christian ages. The caves at this 

 site have Cufic inscriptions, and like those at Beit Jibrin, 

 seem to have been excavated in the middle ages. The word 

 Dhibbdn could hardly represent Ttipu, since the Dh is the 

 proper equivalent of the Hebrew Zain. 



No. 40. Ahiraii might I think be the ruin El Blreh further 

 west, which I believe to be No. 99 of the list of 

 Thothmes III. 



No. 53. Nnpilu. If this come from the root Nup, " to be high," 

 I think it must be the present Nuba, rather further east 

 than the preceding sites, which 1 identify Avith the second 

 Nob of Nehemiah (vii. 33). 



No. 54. Bushnti 1 should be inclined to place at the ruiia of 

 TanivHS south of Nilba. 



