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Pitom, the capital of the district of Sukot, had a second 
name, which it owed to the presence of its god Anhli, lie ivho 
lives, and which in Egyptian is pronounced paa-dnkh, the 
habitation, the dwelling, of the god Ankh. Conformably to 
this name the district of Sukot was called otherwise p-u-nt- 
paa-ankh, f the district of the dwelling of him who lives/ 
Add to this monumental name the Egyptian word za, so well 
known to designate the governor of a town or a district, and 
you have the title of Za-p-u-nt-paa-ankh, f the governor of the 
district of the dwelling of him who lives/ which a Greek of 
Ptolemaic times would render by this translation, ‘ the nomarch 
of the Sethro'itic Nome/ " 
I do not presume to decide where doctors so eminent dis- 
agree. Anyhow, it is very clear that the title is Egyptian, 
and that it will bear without distortion to be done into hiero- 
glyphic, and translated in a very apposite sense. If it be 
objected to Brugscl/s rendering that a nomarct/s title would 
be below the mark of Joseph's rank, it may be replied that he 
bore other and more inclusive titles besides. The matter is 
sure to be still further sifted. 
The office of lord, A don, over all the land of Egypt,* is a 
genuine Egyptian title which Brugsch has only once again 
found in an old Egyptian inscription, where it is given to 
king Hor-em-heb (Homs) of the XVIIIth dynasty, before he 
came to the throne. 
M. Chabas has given a translation of a sepulchral tablet at 
Turin, commemorating Beka, a functionary, probably of the 
XIXth or XXth dynasty, who bore the titles of superinten- 
dent of the public granary, comptroller of upper and lower 
Egypt, The learned writer compares the offices of this high 
personage with those of Joseph. 
The name Asenath, rDDN, is doubtless Egyptian, and has 
been explained in the sense “ throne of Neith/'f or favourite 
of Neith." { But Brugsch says, § “ The name of his [Josephus] 
wife, Asnat, is pure Egyptian, and almost entirely confined to 
the old and middle empire. It is derived from the very 
common female name Sant or Snat." 
We have before spoken of the imputation that Joseph's 
brethren were spies, and of the employment of an interpreter 
at court, and of the use of oaths. There is a small detail in 
Joseph and his Brethren. 
* Gen. xlv. 8. 
t Sp. Bib., I. 479. 
t La Bible, &c. I. 112. 
§ Hist., I. 265. 
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