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sense to agree.^ Whatever these etymologies may import, 

 An-Shaui must be situated like Djett and Tell Dothan, to 

 the right or left of Wady Abu-Nar (Wady Selhab), and 

 it is in the same direction that we may expect to meet with 



.1^ J® %. Dibkhu, J ^^^ (1(1 Bumai, and y "^^^ 'I (1 



Kam^ti. 



Dothain is parted from ^ d fl Maroma, which by 



general consent is Merom, by two names (No. 11) 



h ^^ "^ Eubina or Lubina, and (No. 12) 



<rr> \ ^H) ^^v Kart-Nizanau, the town of flowers.f 



The former of these two towns has been identified by 

 De Eouge and by Mariette witb nil7 Lebnab of Judah, or 



with rii'iS.S Lebonah of Samaria ; by Conder with the rii^7 

 Aa(5ava6 of Galilee. Taking all into account, it seems to me 

 preferable to attach Lubina, and consequently Qart-Nizanau, 

 to the group to which Mercm belongs. Lubina will then find 

 its equivalent in Kharbet Lubban, Kharbet Lobbuna^ which 

 is situated at some distance from lias en-Nakurah, nearly in 

 sight of the sea. J The site of Qart-Nizanau l-^D'ril.iPj is still 

 less easy to guess than that of Lubina. 



I should not be indisposed, however, to conjecture that the 

 nJH'^.l^ of Zabulon (Jos. xxi. 34) is identical with our town : 

 if we may suppose that Gath is a shortened form of the full 

 name Gath-Rimmon, we may admit that Qarta is the 

 abbreviation of Qart-Nizanau. Unhappily the situation of 

 Qarta is anything but certain, and so is that of D m^ Merom, 

 although the Greek transcription, Meppav, Meppwv, seems 

 to give warrant to the scholars who propose to see in this 

 last town the existing village of Meiron. 



* Reland, Palcestina, t. i., pp. 356-357 ; Neubauer, Ghgraphie du 

 Talmud, pp. 50-51. 

 t The reading Kiriath-Sannah of De Roug^ and Mariette admits an 



impossible transcription of ty by ^^ , a transposition of the two elements 



'^A'^^ and ^j of the word H^ ^^ ^^. nizna. Cf. Zeitschrift, 



1881, p. 122, and 1885, p. 6. ""^ 



X Gu^rin, Galilee, t. ii., pp. 171-172. 



