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his name appearing in several lists of their officers and super- 

 intendents. 



It will he seen that these monumental records and the Saneha 

 papyrus all assign the Lotanu to the Sinaitic district in " Middle 

 p]mpire " times. Later, however, under Thothmes III., for instance, 

 they were stated to be farther away to the north, a matter which need 

 not be explained here. But in Saneha's time some of the Lotanu 

 had evidently gone further away from Egypt, and thus had Ijecome 

 to his mind the Upper Lotaiui. 



As mentioned these early monuments also speak of the Horn or 

 Horites as contiguous to the Lotan. This second tril)e the 

 Egyptians also subsequently located elsewhere, for the Golenischef 

 papyrus of a voyage to Phcenicia calls the ^lediterranean near 

 Byblos " the sea of Hor." However, in EgyjDtian records, up to 

 the XlXth Dynasty, Horn signified a district close to the Egyptian 

 frontier, and Seti I. says that leaving Zaru, a place near Ismaeliyeh, 

 and marching to Kanana (Canaan), he traversed Horite territory. 

 Therefore at his epoch the north-west angle of the Sinaitic district 

 commencing at Zaru " the gate of Egypt " was Horite land, 

 and perhaps stretched as far, at the date of Thothmes III., as 

 Gaza. So about 2000 B.C. Horu and Lotan were between South 

 Palestine and Sinai, projecting somewhat into each, and not many 

 days' journey from the Egyptian delta. 



This cpiite coincides with Genesis xxxvi, 36, where Lotan is 

 identified as "first"' l)orn of Seir, a people lying between South 

 Palestine and the Akaka Gulf. Hori, son of this Lotan, like 

 all nomadic pastoral people, pushed out from the Lotan area to 

 further fields and pastures, settling, according to Egyptian evidence, 

 in the districts of the Sinaitic region towards Gaza. 



It is evident that the Egyptians in their Sinaitic inscriptions 

 faithfully transcribed the local tribal names, subsequently using 

 these ethnic titles as geographical ones. This is further confirmed 

 by the Saneha papyrus mentioning the Aiali of the 'Bible, the 

 nephew of Lotan, Genesis xxxvi, 24 ; and also either Qedem, or 

 Adema-Edom ; the correct reading of these two names is not quite 

 certain. Saneha speaks of Aiah as being an oasis famous for its 

 vineyards. It is certainly remarkable that two names of Asiatic 

 neighbours to Egypt should be found in Genesis, and that a little 

 later under the Xllth Dynasty there should be associated a paj^yrus 



