150 TEOF. HULL, LL.D.^ P.R.S., ON HOLY SCRIPTDEE ILLUSTRATED AND 



The Chairman. — I might mention that there is a curious inter- 

 mittent spring in Settle, in Yorkshire. With, regard to flint 

 knives, it is very curious how, almost all over the woi^d, they 

 are used for sacrifices and occasionally in surgery. I have a 

 strong suspicion that the latter use of them is because they are 

 antiseptic as compared with a dirty bronze knife. 



The meeting was then adjourned. 



REMARKS ON" THE FOREGOING PAPER. 



By Colonel C. R. Conder, R.E., D.C.L., LL.D. 



I am in sympathy with Dr. Hull's paper, and much interested in 

 what he says. He will perhaps forgive one or two remarks 

 on points to which I have devoted attention for many years. 



The Karnak lists have now been studied for thirty years. That 

 by Shishak is very short as compared with the lists of Thothmes 

 HI., which include the names of 350 towns. A large proportion 

 of these ape known, and I have recently found 30 more to add to 

 the 66 which I had previously fixed. The latter were in Palestine, 

 the 30 new ones are in Syria (see volume on the Tell Amama 

 letters). 



I hardly think the presence of Queen Taias name shows that she 

 wrote to Zimridi. Her name has been found also on scarabs at 

 Mycenae, and in Rhodes. The discovery, howevei", agrees with the 

 fact that the Tel el Hesi tablet is in the same characters used by 

 other inhabitants of Philistia in the fifteenth century B.C. The 

 Tell Amarna tablets themselves show that the Egyptians used 

 their own hieratic characters, and their own language, at this 

 time, dockets having been written in ink on the tablets, when they 

 arrived. They only used cuneiform letters and clay tablets in 

 writing to Asiatics. 



The date of the accession of Thothmes III. in 1600 B.C., is 

 fixed by three separate astronomical calculations, and Egyptian 

 chi'onology thus agrees with the independent dates of Assyria and 

 Babylonia, derived from Canons of Kings, and from statements 

 as to content poraines. The new tablets agree with the results 

 furmerly obtained. 



