ON THE NAMES ON THE LIST OF THOTHMES III. ol9 



naturally transcribed ]^tD"i\^^^, and the former part cor- 

 responds with the name of the town of Usha b^^^T^^ 

 celebrated among the Jews of the Christian epoch : Is Ashu- 

 Shokhn the full form of the Talmudic name ? 



For Tisuroti and Khashbu I have nothiug to propose. 



Such are the observations which a long study of the lists 

 has suggested to me. I have elsewhere given the justification 

 of my transcriptions y' I have endeavoured to bring to my 

 identifications the same prudence that I have exercised in my 

 transcriptions. The names enumerated arrange themselves 

 almost wholly in the districts that surround Megiddo ; Qodshu^ 

 Damascus, and two or three other towns at most belong to 

 countries comparatively remote. This result, to which the 

 independent study of the lists has led me, arises clearly from 

 the history of the campaign as the inscription at Karnak makes 

 it known to us. In the year xxiii. (of his reign), Thothmes 

 III. set out from Gaza, cleared Carmcl, beat the confederates, 

 including the prince of Qodshu, under the walls of Megiddo, 

 besieged and took the town, then returned to Egypt without 

 pushing farther on towards the north. The fall of Megiddo 

 was decisive, for, as Thothmes III. has himself observed, 

 " Every chief of the whole country [was shut up] in it, so 

 that the capture of Megiddo was as good as the taking of a 

 thousand towns : " when the war was finished he '' reinstalled 

 the chiefs in their dignity " on condition that they should 

 pay tribute. The stress of the campaign fell thus on the 

 plain of Esdraelon : the Egyptian troops had long remained 

 there and had pillaged all the district round, not without 

 pushing on to some distant points. On his retuim, when 

 Thothmes III. built the pylon of Karnak with the booty 

 of this campaign, he inscribed on the wall the names of the 

 towns that he had sacked and which had unwillingly con- 

 tributed to the completion of the edifice. The wall was large, 

 and must be entirely covered. They took indiscriminately all 

 the names of Galilee and Southern Syria that they knew, 

 without troubling about the importance of the town itself: 

 one name did as well as another for that matter. 



* Zeitschrift, 1881, pp. 119-131. 



Bt'daq, 20 November, 1885. 



VOL. XX. 



