Botta welke tijdens zijn onderzoekingen te Khorsabad de bewoners van ieder huis, ieder hutje de volgende stereotiepe vragen stelde: "Hebt u oudheden? Oude potten? Misschien een oude vaas? Waar hebt u die tegels vandaan gehaald, waar die stal van gebouwd is? Waar komen die scherven aardewerk vandaan met die vreemde spijkertekens?" Of de antwoorden van de Arabieren aan Botta: "Zocht hij tichelstenen met inscripties? Die waren daar bij hopen. Hij kon het weten want hij had zijn oven van zulke stenen gebouwd en dat hadden ze in zijn dorp allemaal van oudsher gedaan."
lu'-hith, loo'-hith, ma'-aleh ha-luchith): A place named in Isaiah 15:5; Jeremiah 48:5. It is clearly identical with the way, or descent, of Horonaim. Eusebius, Onomasticon places Luhith between Areopolis and Zoar. Some way is intended by which fugitives from the Arabah could reach the uplands of the Moabite plateau. Guthe thinks it may be the road which leads from the district of the ancient Zoar on the eastern shore of the Dead Sea to the uplands through Wady Bene Hammad. Along this track ran also a Roman road. If Horonaim were the higher of the two places, this might account for the way being called the "descent" of Horonaim as going down from that place, and the "ascent" of Luhith as going up thence. Neither place can as yet be identified with certainty.
W. Ewing
Denningen - Luhith
This place is thought by some to be the same with the Lysa of Ptolemy {Geograph. l. 5. c. 17. p. 137}; Josephus {Antiqu. l. 14. c. 1. sect. 4} calls it Lyssa; Jerom {De locis Hebraicis, fol. 93. A} says in his time it was a village between Areopolis and Zoara, and went by the name of Luitha;