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202 13. ’Akrabeh, is partly defaced, but clearly Christian, and apparently funerary.

14. At El Mughâr, appears to be Byzantine, and is too fragmentary to read.

15. At Tell Jezar is believed to be ancient, occurring with the Hebrew text of the Hasmonean age.

16. At Shafat. The milestone, with the names of Trajan and Nerva, has the mile distance from Jerusalem in Greek.

17. At Amwâs, on a church pillar,, with the Samaritan text, "Blessed be His name for ever," is of the Byzantine age.

18. At Kuriet S'aideh the dedication of Martin the Deacon with a Greek cross, appears to be of the twelfth century A.D.

19. At Deir el Kelt. Greek-Arab bilingual, dedicating the monastery. Also twelfth century. I do not here add the mediæval painted texts at Kuruntul and Kusr Hajlah, which I copied, and have given in the memoirs. The writing in this ease is twelfth or thirteenth century work.

20. At Deir Belah. Dedication by Apollodorus at his own expense—Byzantine, belonging to a chapel.

20a. Gaza. "Domesticus to the son of Domesticus"; a funerary text.

21. Gaza, translated by M. C. Ganneau, records the facing of some building with stone by Alexander the Deacon, and begins with the verse: "The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof" (Psalm xxiv, 1). It was discovered in 1877.

22. At Sheikh Bâshed, a fragment, apparently a mediæval Christian tomb.

23. Hebron. The well-known text in the mosque: "Holy Abraham help thy servant . .. and Agathemeros, and Ugia, and . .. and Tomasia, and Ablabia, and Anastasia."

24. Hebron outer court.

25. Khoreisa. " This is the gate of the Lord, the righteous shall enter in thereat" (Psalm cxviii, 20), over the door of a chapel. Byzantine period.

26–34. Jerusalem. Given in the memoir, are all Christian, and, in two cases only, seem earlier than the fourth century. To these a few more have been added of late from the Northern Cemetery—Jewish and Byzantine, none older apparently than the fourth century.

35–39. In Wâdy Rabâbeh. Texts of the monks and nuns of St. Sion, and that of Thecla Augusta (about 890 A.D.).

40. The inscription on the mediæval font at Bethlehem, dedicated by "those of whom the Lord knows the names."

At the site of Abila I copied in 1873 several inscriptions which were not, I believe, previously known. They are tombstones with the names of Lucius, Archelaus, Phêdistus, and Antonia and Philander, On one of