Petrie, William M. Flinders: Syria and Egypt from the Tell el Amarna letters (London, 1898)

i;o IDENTIFICATION OF PLACES

noted. Yerimoth, Heb., is impossible, as it
was inland. But it is obvious that Yerimoth,
Arimathea, Ramoth, Ramah, are all the
same name, " the high place," and we must
expect to find many such place-names.
There is no name like this along the coast
near the southern Jcbail; yet it is certain,
from the continual sale of timber and slaves
from Gubla, that Yarimuta must have been
an important port near Gubla. But on
turning to the northern Jibleh we see that
the next port to that is Laodicea, formerly
Ramitha. Here then is a Ramoth or
Yerimoth exactly in the required relation
to Jibleh. Such a series of names on the
coast as Ramitha, Saukat, and El Usy, for
Yarimuta, Shigata, and Ullaza, all near the
northern Jibleli or Jcbelch, stamp that as
the true Gubla. There are constructions
and antiquities, and the harbour has several
piers of huge stones, some 11 feet in length
(Baedecker), so the conditions for a former
city and port are quite fulfilled.

Igaid is unknown. It occurs in the travels
of the Mohar in the order Kheta (Hittites),
Aupa (Ubi, plain of Damascus), Khaduma
( = " a fortress " ?), Ygatiy, Za . . . (Tyre?)