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Title: The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916
Subjects: History, Ancient Egypt -- History Syria -- History and antiquities Assyria -- History and antiquities
Publisher: London : S.P.C.K.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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hovels, and we have before us animprovised pattern of a village which recalls in a striking manner Zeriu orBeitin, or any other small modern town which gathers the dwellings of itsfellahiu round some central stone building—whether it be a hostelry for be-nighted travellers, or an ancient castle of the Crusading age. There were on the littoral, to the north of Gaza, two large walled towns,Ascalon and Joppa, in whose roadsteads merchant vessels were accustomed to The idea that the royal paUice of Mediuet-Abu is a reproductiou of a migdol was firstsuggested by Makiette, Itin^raire des Invites aux fetes dinauguration du Canal de ,S«(i,pp. 129,130;cf. Itineraire de la Ilaute-Egypte, p. 213. Uiimichen, at about the same time, could not see iu itauythiug but the remaius of the gate of an Kgyptian fortress(Resultate der photo. E.rpid , vol. i. p. 21), • This arrangement was brought into notice for the first time by Maspero, Arch. Egyptitnne, p. 33. THE CANAANITES—THEIR AORIOULTUPE. 31
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THE MODERN VILLAGE OF BEITIN, SEEN tKOM THE SOUTH-WEST. take hasty refuge in tempestuous weather.^ There were to be fouud on the plainsalso, and on the lower slopes of the mountains, a number of similar fortressesand villages, such as lurza, Migdol, Lachisli, Ajalon, Shocho, Adora, Aphuldu,Keilah, Gezer, and Ono; and, in the neighbourhood of the roads wliich led tothe fords of the Jordan, Gibeah, Beth-Anoth, and finally Urusalim, our Jeru-salem.^ A tolerably dense population of active and industrious husbandmen Drawn by Boudier, from a pliotograph. This is tlio ancient Betliel. A view of Zeriu, Uic•Teiireel of Scripture, appears as a heading to this chapter (see p. 111). Ascalon was not actually on the sea. Its port, Maiumas Ascalouis, was probably merely anarrow bay or creeli, now, for a long period, filled up by the sand. Neither the site nor the remainsof the port have been discovered (Gderik, Judee, vol. ii. pp. 140-152). The name of the town isalways spelled in Egyptian with an

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