ON THE NAMES ON THE LIST OP THOTHMES III. 313 



^ Huzar to ^'h, ^'^h, and ^^2^)1; No. 34, 

 ^ ^ . '-^Kinnarotatonil?; No. 30, j]^^ 

 Adimim, to the Adami "'P'^^ of Naphtali, the present ed- 

 Damieh; No. 37, ^^^_p'\ Qasuna to )Vtp[;; No. 38, 



M^ A n I\ (1 1 I 



MashaL to ^«tl?n; and No. 40 [] ^ ^ Aksaph to TOi«. 



The six positions not determined are : — 



J 1K Mazana (cf. Jltn, food, ]t^^, fed, 

 fat) does not answer to any known name ; that of P"T^ Madon, 

 which Mariette proposes, does not contain the h t or ^ of the 

 Egyptian. 



No. 23, h (*^^ A ^s^ "^ Bizana, answers, letter to 



letter, to el-Bizaneh,* and I have identified the two ]ocalities,t 

 but that brings us too far to the south, towards Nablus. On 

 the other hand a comparison with Begaananim,J besides 

 being conti-ary to the Egyptian orthography, brings us too 

 far to the north, to the neighbourhood of Kadesh of Naphtali. 

 The name of Bessiim, of which we might think, has only the 

 first letter in '^.ommon with that of Bizana. All that we 

 may admit is that Bizana probably lay high in the mass of 

 hills which separates the lake of Tiberias from the plain of 

 Esdraelon : this is also the conclusion at which I have 



arrived after studying No. 24, H ^ t.j.v "^ Amashna, and 



No. 25, 5^ [q]T Masakha. The Masakhas, Meskhas that 



I find in the map are too far from Gralilee to be possibly 

 identified with our Masakha, Maskha. 



The situation of No. 27 - — a "^ Aruna or Aluna has 



great importance with regard to the narrative of the campaign 

 of Thothmes III. against Megiddo. Let us first mark that 

 the two transcriptions, Aruna or Aluna which the Egyptian 



* Palestine Expl. F., 1881, p. 201. 

 f Zeitschrift, 1885, p. 123. 



J Keland, Palcestina, t. ii., p. 663 ; Neubauer, Gcographie dtt, Talmud, 

 pp. 224, 225, 



