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PahirOj Phahir^ have been the name which preceded that of 

 Safed ? The position will agree very well with the data of the 

 Egyptian monuments. 



The name TmT ^ 1K Shamana (No. 35), identical except 



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the ideographic part with that of TtToT tk ^^^ Shama- 



nau, which we have met with above (No. 18), is, as De Rouge 

 saw long ago, the word ]ptl?, ^[Ji, but I cannot find any 

 Saman, Shemman, Samneh, in the neighbourhood of the Lake 

 of Tiberias. 



Lastly, the position of Misheal not being yet quite certain, 



the position of its Egyptian equivalent M^ T»T»T (] 



Mashal (No. 39), between Shunem and Aksaph scarcely 

 permits us to make choice between the difierent proposed 

 localities. If Mashal belongs to the same group as Shunem, 

 the village of Misilieh, aA^jj^ , to the south of Djenin, may 

 represent the ancient town ; if it belongs to the group of 

 Aksaph, it is the ruin of Maisleh, as Oonder will have it.* 

 This second hypothesis appears to me more likely than the 

 first. The places are always grouped in our lists by twos or 

 threes, and if we attach Mashal to Shunem, Aksaph will remain 

 isolated. I adopt for Aksaph the site proposed by Conder-|- at 

 Tell-Yasif, not without some doubt ; the site of el-Iksaf pro- 

 posed by Robinson carries us in fact too far to the north. 

 Among the names that follow, we may consider as suffi- 



ciently identified, (No. 42) c ^^, <>•=• "^ ^::zi^ Taanak ; 

 (No. 43) (](] y ^"^^ lablu^mu; Di^^l^l (No. 47) 



^'^'"^^ Ako; (No. 48) "^^^ Rosh-Qodshu, 

 ^llT^^"^? tJi'6 sacred cape, or the sacred ridge, the town of 

 Haifa; (No. 49) "^^^^ UfJ ^V "^ Kalimana, Calamon.J 

 All the series comprised between Nos. 41 and 49 was, as we 

 see, aligned along Carmel, and this observation permits us to 

 arrange almost certainly the intermediate points whose 

 identification is not evident at the first glance. 



(No. 41) ^zz:^ J 1 % ° Geba-Suan, is one of the 



* Pal Expl. F., 1883, p. 136. 

 t Pal. Exiil. F., 1881, pp. 49-50. 

 j Zeitschrift, 1879, pp. 54-55. 



