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position. For Shemesli-Aduma (Qilb^'U^Dtp), if we admit 

 ttat the former part may have fallen away, we are led to 

 compare Adamah "^"T^ of Naphtali (Jos. xix. 36), whose 

 position is unhappily uncertain. Khirbet-Admah will fall in 

 well enough with the place which Shemesh-Aduma occupies 

 in the Egyptian list : Khirbet-Admah, without being in fact 

 in the immediate vicinity of En-naurah, is yet not so far 

 removed that we may dismiss it with certainty. The two 



D -^^ Apurus-Apulus show us two towns of the same 

 name placed beside one another. The two readings Apuru 

 and Apulu are possible : the one represents vpi^, a mound, a 

 knoll, the other ^^^, a fawn. Egyptologists have hitherto 

 always adopted the reading Apuru, and that has led them to 

 see in the two Apurus the two Ophrahs •^"^J?^ of the Bible, 

 which has the inconvenience of carrying us too far to the 

 south of Gralilee. In adopting the reading Apulu and Aphulu 

 (Ophel) we find right in Galilee two villages near one another 

 whose name presents an assonance quite sufficient to recall 

 the two identical names of the Egyptian list, el-Afuleh 

 and Fuleh. 



The following group, Khashbu, Tisuroti, Nekabu, Ashu- 

 Shokhn, has been generally placed beyond Jordan, in the 

 regions where the Pharaohs never penetrated : the only 

 reason I can find is the mistaken comparison between the 

 Khashbu of the Egyptians and Kheshbon p^tlMl of the 

 Ammonites. The place which it occupies in the list of 

 Thothmes III. between Anukharotu and lurza will oblige us 

 however to search either in Galilee or in Judasa, not at all in 

 Persea. The very probable comparison of Nekabu with the 

 Nekeb ^j?i3 of Naphtali (Jos, xix. 33) decides me for Galilee, 

 and the other names do not contradict this hypothesis. 

 Nekeb is Khirbet Seiyadeh, which results from the Talmudic 

 gloss which renders Hannekeb by Ziadatha fc^rn^^Hi.'^ The 



name of Lonama (cf. D^^/ from Vy?) is recovered probably 

 in the neighbouring ruins of Tell-en-Naam, where the process 

 of modern transformation is analogous to that which has 

 changed Adullam into Aid-el-ma, The locality Ashu-Shokhn 

 gives rise to a very tempting conjecture. Its name is 



* Reland, Palcestina, t. ii., p. 717 ; Neubauer, G&ographie du Talmud, 

 p. 225 ; Palest. Expl. F., 1881, p. 54, article by Conder. 



