ON THE NAMES ON THE LIST OP THOTHMES II T. 315 



we find readily in the abrupt angle of the Wady Arah the 

 valley ivhich the soldiers of his Majesty filled, and one troop, 

 marching with prudence, like that which the Egyptian text 

 brings before us, might easily reach in seven hours the banks 

 of the torrent near which Lejjun is situated. 



I will read then Aluna (Eliuna), and I will seek the site of 

 this place at Ura-el-Fahm itself, or in the immediate vicinity 

 of Um-el-Fahm, 



For No. 33 A^ ft ^ two transcriptions are equally 



possible, Pahil and Pahur. The first gives us a name identical 

 to the Semitic name of Pella in Peraea 7115 > the other brings 

 us to the word '^'i^P, a potter, with this observation, however, 

 that the Arabic form ,U>i gives us for the middle sound a 

 value which is generally rendered in Egyptian by © rather 

 than by |. I dismiss at once the site of Pella, which is too 

 far to the south, and on the other side of Jordan. The town 



of f^^ 8 ^ Pahur-Pahil is named in a list of Ramses II., 



as follows : — 



(1 ^ "^^^ 'O^ ' Arosa, ° %v Ako, 



Zarmait, ^ | <^ ] c-^ Pahiro, J ^ ^ ^ 



Bitsharo, &c. Here, the vicinity of Ako points out to us a 

 Galilean situation for Pahir, that of Bitsharo, a situation in 

 Samaria. 



A third document, Papyrus Anastasi No. iv., mentions 

 articles of wood coming from Pahiro. All this proves a 

 certain importance; unhappily the Bible has preserved for us 

 nothing that can be compared with this name, and modern 

 nomenclature is no more instructive in this matter than the 

 Bible. It is not that names are lacking into which the root .L^i 

 fokhar, enters : we have Rashayat el-Fokhar, Khurbet el 

 Fakhura, Khurbet Fakhakhir, &c., but any ancient site 

 might receive from the country folk a surname formed of a 

 variant of .l^i fokhar, provided that it is strewn with 

 potsherds. 



An examination of the map has suggested to me a hypo- 

 thesis which I give for what it is worth. Pahir is placed 

 between Hazor and Lais in one direction, between Kinnereth, 

 Adami, Kishion, in the other; that is to say, between the 

 towns of Lake Sammochonites and the towns of the Lake of 

 Tiberias. The principal town of this region is Safed : can 



