THE LIST OF SHESHONQ AT KARNAK. ]27 



No. 55. Paurn Kitut. I\, is to be noted that the word Pauru for 

 a " chief," is used in the Tell Amania tablets, and Grath is 

 fixed by their statements at Tell es Sciji, and called Giti. 

 The Gittites are mentioned in these tablets ; and I would 

 therefore advocate the view which M. Maspero mentions, 

 and render this name " chief of the Gittite regions." The 

 plural in ufii for masculine and for feminine occurs in Assyrian 

 and in Amorite, recalling the curious Hebrew form Ahoth, 

 " fathers." 



No. 56. Adima (or Adoma, Brugsch) I think must be Ed 

 BuweimeJi, a village south of the preceding. 



No. 58. Magdihi is no doubt rightly placed by M. Maspero, 

 and the same as No. 71 of the lis!, of Thothmes III. 



No. 59. larza is also no doubt right. The name of the ruin 

 near Mejdel was collected by my scribe as Erzeli not Yerzeli. 



The latter part of the list, with its cartouches defining districts 

 followed by names of places in each, is much elucidated by M. 

 Maspero's new work. I think however a few sites may be added 

 to those which he proposes. 



Nos. 65-66. " Azmon in the Valley " carries us south of Beer- 

 sheba. 



No. '67. Anari might perhaps be corrupted into " Oi/«-/, the name 

 of a ruin north of Beersheba, which would fit with the 

 next. 



No. 68. Pi Hakaran Pitlausha. I believe M. Maspero fixes an 

 important point in suggesting Ftiteis, which is a large ruin. 

 I have proposed to identify it with the Pitazza of the Tell 

 Amarna tablets. I would suggest that Hakarait may be for 

 'Akarau (the 'Aiu and Cheth being undistinguished), and 

 that it means the "barren" or "unproductive" district. 

 All the places so defined lie in the deserts near Beersheba. 



No. 70. Brugsch suggests Aroer, which seems not impossible. 

 It is not the maps that are " poor" in this district, but the 

 country which is desert, with very few habitable sites. 



Nos. 71-72. Pi Haknraii, Ahilama (or Ahiroma according to 

 Brugsch), another desert site. I cannot understand how 

 ma can be regarded as a plural in any Semitic language. 



Nos. 73-74. Shahhalut ni Gahri. I think M. Maspero identifies 

 this in a most probable manner at el Jdbri. The site is now 

 a ruin with caves, for there is not a single inhabited village 

 in thia region. The Amorite plural, like the Assyrian, end 



