Note 74 — Chapter I · THE HEBREW PATRIARCHS (continued 2)
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The identification is, however, doubtful, since only potsherds of the Roman period are visible at Umm Jerâr, which, moreover, according to Palmer (Name-lists in the Survey of Western Palestine, p. 420), is merely Umm el-Jerrâr, ‘the mother of water-pots.’