ON THE NAMES ON THE LIST OF THOTHMES III. 309 



form jin^ nearer to the hieroglyphic spelling. According to 



the analogies of the rest of the list, it is then between Lejjun 

 and Tell Dothan that wc should seek the position of the 

 six intermediate places, but should we look to the districts 

 north of Oarmel, or south ? The places situated on the 

 north are enumerated in the list about No. 42, around 



o^^v <>■=* "^ ''^"-^ Taanak ; it is likely then that Nos. 3-8 



were situated, at least some of them, on the southern side. 



The first of these towns (No. 3) ? '^ '^ flfl Khaai, 



answers very exactly to the word J^^D, « village, I only 

 know one place whose name precisely resembles Khaai — it is 

 Deir el Haua; but I do not know a case where the hard 



sound of T n is rendered in Arabic by i, and that alone is 



enough to make me reject the identification. Neither should 

 we recognise here, despite the resemblance, the Hivites of the 

 Bible : the Hivites are a people, and Khaai is a town. 



The next number ft i V "V ^rit-Suna, perhaps will 



permit us in a general way to indicate the point of the 

 compass towards which we should seek Khaai. Git-Suna, 

 transcribed pD'Jlil or jitoTlil, is one of the many names 

 beginning with the element iHil ; if the second part has fallen 

 away, as is sometimes the case in composites, Git-Suna will 

 be one of the many Djetts that we meet with on the map of 

 Palestine. The Djett which will fit well enough here is that 

 which is near the Wady Abu-Nar, not far from the chief route 

 which leads from Kakon to Lejjun.* If we admit this 

 identification, Khaai should be placed somewhere in the 

 Wady Arah, perhaps towards Khan ez-Zebadneh, at the 

 point where the roads separate. 



The numbers that follow are equally uncertain. 



I have assimilated the second element of /vva^^a t t y v8\ \\ 



An-Shaui to i^^^, ^^itl?, to make a noise, to crash, or to 

 nitp, Chald. ^^1^, to he even, level, so that An-Shaui might 

 well mean the noisy fountain, or the fountain of the jplain. 



There was in the territory of Judah a valley of similar 

 name Hlty' ^X^V, where the Kabbins prefer for TT\'^, the 



* This identification has been proposed by Conder, Pal. Expl. F., 1876, 

 p. 63. 



