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 below) only 12, which may be the original number. The few names that can be satisfactorily identified (Sheleph, Ḥaẓarmaweth, Sheba, Ḥavilah) point to S Arabia as the home of these tribes.

(1) ] unknown. The is variously explained as the Ar. art. (but this is not Sabæan), as Ēl = 'God,' and as āl = 'family'; and as a derivative of the vb. for 'love' (wadda), equivalent to Heb. (Wi. MVAG, vi. 169); cf. Glaser, Skizze, ii. 425; DB, i. 67.

(2) ] A Yemenite tribe or district named on Sabæan inscrs., and also by Arab. geographers: see Homm. SA Chrest. 70; Osiander in ZDMG, xi. 153 ff., perhaps identical with the Salapeni of Roman writers. Cognate place-names are said to be still common in S Arabia (Glaser).

(3) ] The modern province of Ḥaḍramaut, on the S coast, E of Yemen. The name appears in Sabæan inscrs. of 5th and 6th cent. , and is slightly disguised in the of Strabo ( iv. 2), the Chatramotitæ of Pliny, vi. 154 (Atramitæ, vi. 155, xii. 52?).

(4) ] uncertain. The attempts at identification proceed on the appellative sense of the word (= 'moon'), but are devoid of plausibility (see Di.).

(5) ([E], G )] likewise unknown. A place called Dauram close to Ṣan'a has been suggested: the name is found in Sabæan (Glaser, 426, 435).

(6) ([E], G )] mentioned by Ezk. (27$19$: rd. ) as a place whence iron and spices were procured. It is commonly taken to be the same as 'Azāl, which Arab. tradition declares to be the old name of Ṣan'a, now the capital of Yemen. Glaser (310, 427, 434, etc.) disputes the tradition, and locates 'Ûzāl in the neighbourhood of Medina.

(7) ] Probably the Ar. and Aram. word (daḳal,, [Syrian: **]) for 'date-palm,' and therefore the name of some noted palm-bearing oasis of Arabia. Glaser (MVAG, 1897, 438) and Hommel (AA, 282 f.) identify it with the of Procopius, and the modern Ǧōf es-Sirhān, 30° NL (as far N as the head of the Red Sea).

(8) ([E] and 1 Ch. 1$22$, G$L$ )] supposed to be the word 'Abil, a frequent geographical name in Yemen (Glaser, 427). The name is omitted by many MSS of G, also by G$B$ in 1 Ch. 1$22$ (see Nestle, MM, 10), where some Heb. MSS and S have.

(9) ] apparently a tribal name (= 'father is God'), of genuine Sabæan formation (cf., ZDMG, xxxvii. 18), not hitherto identified.