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HAR (with determinative of locality) AL—.1
“Mountain of God,” as Brugsch; see No. 77. [This ought to be Jerusalem,
called “the mount of the Lord” in Gen. xxii. 14. The geographical names
which follow indicate the position of Har-al, and the Tel el-Amarna tablets
have informed us that Jerusalem was already an important stronghold, and
was in subjection to Egypt. In Ezek. xliii. 15 there is a play upon har-el
(rendered “altar “) and Ariel, which, according to Isaiah xxix. 1, 2, was
a name of Jerusalem.—ED.] |
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R-BAU‡.
Identified by Maspero with the Rabbah of Judah, Josh. xv. 6o, [the Rubute
of the Tel el-Amarna tablets, from which we learn that it formed part of
the territory of Urusalim or Jerusalem.—ED.] |
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N(U)MÂNA.2
Some place of the worship of Tammuz,-probably Deir Na’aman, 10 miles west
of Khurbet Rab’a. |
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NÂMÂNA.
The same name as the preceding with a slightly different spelling. Maspero
compares ’Arak-Na’aman, opposite Deir Na’aman. |
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MAR-MAM. The plural
of Merom (Maspero). Reading Malmam, perhaps Khurbet Umm el-Hemâm,
about 1 mile south of Deir Na’aman. |
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ANI‡ (with
determinatives of “fountain” and “country.”) The “Spring.” Comp. Ain in
Simeon, Josh. xix. 7. Perhaps Khurbet Kefr ’Ana, 4 miles south-east of
’Aqîr. |
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R-HBU. Rehob. Perhaps
Khurbet Rahab, near Khurbet el-Hai. Maspero makes it the Rehoboth of Isaac,
now er-Ruhaibeh. |
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AQAR—. Ekron, Amqarruna in Assyrian, now
’Aqîr. |
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HIKR-IM. A Semitic plural, which I think
must be the name of the Hagarites. We are told that the list includes “all
the unknown peoples of the frontiers of the Sati.” But cf. ’Ain el-Hejeri,
south-west of Hebron. |
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AUBAL—. An “Abel,” perhaps Abel-Shittim,
near Jericho. |
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AUTAR-ÂA‡.
“The country of Autar the great.” Is this to distinguish it from No. 15?
Perhaps Khurbet Attûrah, 4 miles north-east of Jerusalem. Maspero
identifies it with “the great country of Adr” in Shishak’s List (No. 98),
and agrees with Mariette in identifying it with Adoraim, now Dura, west
of Hebron. |
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AUBAL— (with determinative of locality).
Perhaps Abel-Mizraim, identified by Jerome with Beth-Hogla, now ’Ain Hajla,
between Jericho and the Jordan. |
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KNTHAU (with determinative of plain or
district). “The district of Gath,” see No. 63. |
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MAQRPUT. I hold with Maspero that this
is the Hebrew megraphoth, “clods,” or dug-up ground. Comp.
the present Makarfet el-Qattûm, which is crossed by the Pilgrim Road
on the way from the great ford of Hajla to Jerusalem. |
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’AINA. “The spring.” Josephus places ’Aina
above Jericho. Probably the ’Ain es-Sultân,
supposed to mark the site of the first Jericho. |
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KAR-MAN. Perhaps Calamon near Jericho,
or the southern Carmel.3 [The Tel el-Amarna
tablets settle the question in favour of the second identification. In
Nos. 92-96 I see a Semitic memorandum: “The meadow-land of the Gittites;
the tillage and spring of Carmel,” which have been turned into the names
of five different localities by the vanity of the Egyptian scribe.—ED.] |
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BATIA. Beth-ia. In
1881 I suggested that the divine name Yah is involved in this local name.
Cf. Hanania (No. 97 in Shishak’s List). |
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APUN. Perhaps the Taphôn of 1 Macc.
ix. 50, in Judæa. It may also be the Taphnos mentioned by Eusebius
as near Adasa (Géog. du Talmud; p. 99). Comp. Tibna, 4½
miles south-west of Khurbet Abu ’Adas, which is 7 miles west-south-west
of Jerusalem. |
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AUBIL— (with determinative of locality).
Another Abel, but I know not where. |
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IRTU. Perhaps Yîreh. [Can Irtu be
the Jordan, with t for d, as in the Amorite letters of Tel
el-Amarna?—ED.] |