ON THE NAMES ON THE LIST OP THOTHMES III. 311 



It is not impossible however that the Kura, Kharbet el 

 Kourah of Guerin and of the English map, has preserved the 

 name of Qartha, the a final of the Arabic answering perhaps 



to n of ny_. 



Kharbet el Kourah will hold its place well enough between 

 Lubban and Meiron, but it will be situated perhaps a little 

 too high for Qarta of Zabulon, 



The following section, No. 13 to No. 16, takes U3 out of 

 Galilee. I will not then dwell on the names which compose 



it |i iti ^^ Dimasqu, Damascus, QA | Adiru or 



Adilu, (j % J <=> Aubil, Abila, ^^^^ Hamatu, 

 Hamath of Gadarene, except to say that the comparison of 

 Adilu with Edre'i which I accepted after De Rouge in ISSl,"^ 

 no longer seems possible to me. The name of Edrei "'^pl.'l^^ 



contains an ^ which is not in [I QA li [1 ^ to have its exact 

 orthography we need a transcription like that of No. 91 in 

 the list of Thothmes III. (1 V^ . Adiru, is more- 



over, as Brugsch has very well perceived in connexion with 

 the analogous name in the list of Sheshonq,t the true 

 counterpart of the Hebrew '^'^'^i:?, large, very great, mighty, 

 from the root "^"1^. 



Here, as in many places in the lists, a difficulty occurs : 



must we attach Nos. 17 and 18 Pi laqidua, 



, ^^^^ s^ i W If I ^ 



uTh "^ , I , Shamanau to the group of Damascus 



or to the group which begins (No. 19) with Bierotu ? This 

 last includes many names easy to find in the district where 

 we may recover the whole group with a certain degree of 

 likelihood. 



No. 19 ^^^6 (J §() %ik Bierotu is certainly not, as 



Mariette would have it. Bey rut in Phoenicia. J We must seek it 

 in the neighbourhood of the lake of Tiberias. The Bible does not 

 mention any r\"i"1^^5. in •these parts, but Josephus, speaking 

 of the wars of the Hebrews against the Canaanites, names as 



* Zeitschrift, 1881, p. 123. 



t Brugsch, Geogr. Inschriften, t. ii., p. 62. 



X Mariette, Les Listes geographiguet, pp. 19-20. 



