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AN ATLAS OF ANCIENT EGYPT.
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CONTENTS.
Preface
Introduction
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Map
of Ancient Egypt
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Tables of the Nomes, with their Capitals, and the Gods worshipped in them (l to XX of Lower Egypt and XX XXII of Upper Egypt).
Map
of Ancient Egypt from Beni SuiF to EkhmIm Tables of the Nomes, with their Capitals and the Gods worshipped in them' (ix to XIX of Upper Egypt).
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Map
OF Ancient
to Philae
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Tables of the Nomes, with their Capitals and the Gods worshipped in them (l to IX of Upper Egypt).
Map Map
of Ethiopia
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vii
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Index to
Map
of
Modern Egypt
.pp.
etc.
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vii
xi
PREFACE.
The Committee of the Egypt Exploration Fund issues this volume of Maps of Ancient Egypt as a Special Publication, in the belief that many of its friends and subscribers may desire to possess
such an Atlas exhibiting the latest identifications of ancient
sites,
little,
upon
it,
will
give a truer
the skeleton
also
maps
of Ancient
shows the
lines of the
Egypt which follow it. This map modern desert roads (which generally
it
will
therefore be appreciated
by
by archseological enquirers.
will
Opposite to the
Nomes and
their capitals,
and of the
Maps
of the
Wady
as part of
M.
and explained
present
at length in his
is
1887.
The
Map
of that district
from the Memoirs which bear upon the maps are also reprinted.
reference
list
of localities in
Egypt mentioned
fall
in the
Bible
is
appended
doubtless
into the
may
be
in its results,
INTRODUCTION.
population,
its
origin
from remotest
to
supposed
(a.d.
Some
origin,
appears to have numbered at least 7J millions. authorities hold that the Ancient Egyptians were of African
it
100)
of to-day
in
and Coptos; or from the South-East by the straits of Bab el Mandeb; their original home, according to these several opinions,
having been
in
Asia Minor,
of which
in
clear to us
from
the
any
historic record
difficult
life,
not to consider
religion,
and
it
art
which
is
so
much
as
Ancient Egyptian.
Egypt "the
changes.
fertile
gift
is
of the
little
Nile."
its
Egypt
Her
the
the resemblance
In the
maps
it
of this Atlas
the courses
and
canals,
impossible to
its
Changes.
The Greek
historians
and
geographers
tell
and that these subdivided, so that the river entered the sea by seven channels, of which five were natural, and two artificial. But these have all more or less changed, dwindled, or disappeared. In order from East to West,
at the southern point of the Delta,
they were
named by
the Greeks
and Canopic branches, generally In the days after the principal cities through which they passed. of Herodotus, the fork of the river was three or four miles north of where Cairo stands; it is now some ten miles further north still. The Rosetta and Damietta branches of the Nile are its two chief
Phatnitic, Sebennytic, Bolbitine,
The
Pelusiac
branch
has disappeared.
of Ancient
geography
The elusive character of the internal Egypt largely results from natural variations
in the distribution
changes of the water-system (notably those made in the times of Mena, the first historic king; of the xiith and xixth Dynasties; and of the Ptolemies); and, lastly, from the cumulative effects of
local irrigation continued for
thousands of years.
the Faiyum.
(or
of the North" Lower Egypt). The rest of their country was "the Land of the South" (or Upper Egypt), and extended from the apex of the
Egyptians, the
Delta
Delta to the ridge of granite which crosses the Nile at about 24" N. latitude and produces the "first cataract." This cataract
of
Nubia
(the Ethiopia of
Greek
of their earliest
Faiyum) has an average width of only 10 miles, with a length about 450; and this also is "the gift of the Nile.'"- It is hemmed by the hills of the Arabian and Libyan deserts, and its rich black
formed
of the deposit left by the annual overflowing
is
soil is entirely
of the river.
The Faiyum
hills,
5.
the Libyan
'
Serodotus II,
The Bahr
Ytisif,
Nile.
is
still
The
well
fertility,
and
name
is
"marsh, or lake district," through its Coptic form ol Phiom. Here was the celebrated "Lake Moeris" of the Greeks, the admiration of Herodotus and the work of the xiith Dynasty kings who also built
;
it,
within the
Nile, into
At
its
highest,
the original lake of the Faiyurh had almost covered the province;
as reduced,
it
seems
to
of
To
their country
Red Land.
The Greeks
called
Latin forms oi
the Nile.
Nilus,
falls
Little or
in
climate
is
said to be
now changing
in this respect.
The
necessary
irrigation of the crops has always depended upon the due storing
and
Ancient Quarries. Owing to the scarcity of wood, Egyptian made of bricks of Nile-mud: monumental
of
The
rock
on both
and as
is
far as
Silsileh, is
limestone of
cliff
without
finest quality
Ahmar, and numerous fine monuments in this material Alabaster was quarried especially in the Het Nub region on exist. In the southern portion of the east bank from Minyeh to Asyut.
Gebel
See The
Moeris, by Major U. H.
Beown,
Irrigation,
Upper Egypt;
Mythology.
most notable quarry is at where the rocks on either side approach and overso that the removal of the blocks was easily effected.
Gebel
Silsileh,
river,
hang the
the granite were quarried at Syene, crossing cataract there being formed by a vein of this syenite"great the river valley. Between the Nile and the Red Sea vi^as a
Red
granite and
some grey
The
difficulties
ivth of obtaining them did not deter even the earliest kings of the stones for their Dynasty from making the freest use of these
"monuments of eternity." Egyptian mythology; its connection with the geography of Egypt. The true sources of their beneficent Nile, and the causes of its regular rise and fall in the summer and autumn months
were as unknown
Sun
himself.
Libyan hills dead passed on, and hence they preferred to found their cemeteries, In early or cities of the dead, on the west bank of the river. oases of the Libyan waste doubtless times, travellers' tales of the
led to the belief that beyond the perils of the desert,
to the Ancient Egyptians as the origin of the great His nightly disappearance behind the Western, or suggested to them that land of darkness to which their
and beyond
if
The
all
natural
among
their beneficent
fertilizing
power
of the river.
tilled
The
and
fertile
was inimical
to life
The
desert
destructive
god Set;
fertile
and between Set and Osiris had been constant rivalry and warfare
corresponding to the unending encroachments of desert on
land,
and
fertile
land on desert.
The
1
State Religion
their feudal
character.
The gods
of the
This is, however, not the true Syenite of mineralogists. The " shepherds" here Incidental reference is made to this fact in Genesis sltii, 3134. referred to were nomads of the Eastern desert, who were always troublesome to the Egyptians.
2
gods
gods of a
all
district, or
even of a
city.
represented the Sun, the Earth, the principal planets and stars, and
the Nile; these being worshipped under different aspects, and
The
essential
made
if
it
be regarded as national,
his city
became the
of the reigning
dynasty.
The
kings were
and variety of
religion.
The system
of
feudal;
tration
it was bound up with the state religion, and was based upon the subdivision of the land.
adminis-
their Princes.
number and boundaries These provinces were of which might vary from time to time. called hesep by the natives, and by the Greeks nomoi; whence the modern term Nomes. Each nome had its farm-land; its marshes
forty provinces, the
some
for fowling
capital,
of
papyrus reeds;
its
canal;
and
its
and ad-
ministration.
rulers of the
and military
in loyalty to
and
in
command
of
all
Communication with
foreign
nations.
Sometimes
it
the
might please
them
Such expeditions
sculptor, precious
brought back
to the variety of
to the
for particulars as
naturally but
Hostile, commercial,
was
the
thus
and general national intercourse Slidan, gradually established with Nubia and the
North
African
peoples,
desert
tribes,
and the inhabitants of the Sinaitic peninsula, Syria, Babylonia, Red Mesopotamia, the traders and dwellers on the coasts of the Sea and in Arabia, the kingdoms of Asia Minor, the Phoenicians, and the pre-Homeric Greeks. In the seventh century B.C. Greek colonists (traders and mercenary troops) were formally recognised
by the Egyptians.
invasions of Egypt by foreign nations. Egypt was conquered by the Hyks6s^ not much later than 2000 B.C. by the Ethiopians under Sabako B.C. 700; by the Assyrians under Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal B.C. 672 665; by the Persians under
The
Cambyses
b.c.
525; and
fell,
:^^^.
But
it is
birth or
culture,
it
Roman
owe our
Empire.
The Greeks
it
linked the
of Ancient
Egypt
that
is
primarily to
this
Greek accounts
we
knowledge of
adoption.
2 The Hyks6s have not yet been identified. They are stated by Josephus to have been " Shepherd Kings," and to have come from the North Bast.
iQc:
SUMMARY
OF
and fourth
"
Memoir entitled The Store City of Pithorn,} mound of Tell el Maskhutah was supposed by Egyptologists to occupy the site of the city of Raamses {Exodus i, 11); in the spring of that year M. Naville found it to be on that
Exodus" from
his
Up
to 1883, the
of Pithom.
By
been taken from the place and were then in Ismailiah, and of those
Tum,
The
that
Pi-Tum
the
Hebrew
ll
Pithom,
Coptic
and
the
Peitho
of the
Septuagint.
The founder
B.C.
13001250),^ who is usually supposed to be the Pharaoh of the Oppression, and it had evidently been built as a fortified military store-house or granary {Exodus i,
Rameses
(xixth Dynasty,
II
the
Hebrew word
1 The third and revised edition of M. Naville's Store City of Fithom and the Route of the JExodus was published in 1887, after the discovery and excavation of Goshen, and the friendly criticism of the First Edition by Biblical critics and Egyptologists all the vforld over.
2 The dates of Ancient Egyptian history, in round numbers, as given throughout this letterpress are, as far as possible, in accordance with those to which Professor Flinders Petrie has recently given currency in his lectures delivered at University College, London.
8
Vc^n^X-aX^'s,
which provisions were gathered for the Ine use of armies or caravans bound across the Eastern desert. bricks of which these "military store-houses" were built were composed of the common material, Nile mud, mixed with chopped
they were apparently
{^Exodus
V,
19).
Dynasty which constitute the so-called Anastasi papyri, and is there followed by the determinative (a hieroglyphic symbol, marking the nature of the preceding word),
of the XlXth
indicating a borderland inhabited by foreigners.
In these writings
the
name denotes
a district including
Menephthes, which is of Thuku," and it is hence clear that before becoming the civil name of the capital, Thuku designated a region, or district, containing Pithom. Such was the meaning of the
M. Naville also gives Succoth [Exodus xii, XIII, 20) as the Hebrew equivalent of Thuku. Among the Roman ruins of the mound M. Naville further
the
name under
Xixth
Dynasty.
his
'^']
;
philological
reasons
for
considering
dis-
Ero Castra,
camp
victoribus, Maximiano et Severo imperatoribus, et Maximino et Constantino nobilissimis Caesaribus, ab Ero in Clusma, M. Villi e. Under our victorious lords, tiie emperors aximianus and Severus, and tiie most illustrious Caesars Maximinus and Constantine, from Ero to Clusma there are nine miles Nine.
Dominis nostris
As was
the distance
Roman provinces where Greek was spoken, given both in Latin and Greek, and the 6 at the end of the last line stands for nine. This Roman milestone was the means of leading M. Naville to the conclusion that Pi-Tum was the
usual in the
is
we read
whose
writers
Ramses
"
version,
^ It must here be said that Brugsoh's philological argument for the and Succoth is not admitted by M. Maspero.
Thuki
The Red
Septuagint, keeps the old
Sea.
name
when
was made,
in
Ar or Era,
when
part of the
Greek name
may be the Greek transliteration of the Egyptian word ''Era!' The Greek and Roman writers who speak of Heroopolis are
unanimous
in declaring that the city
sea, at the
head
of the Arabian Gulf, which was also called Heroopolitan, and hence
it is
in the
times of the
Romans
the
Red Sea
it does now, and that the Bitter Lakes were then under water. Linant Bey considered it geologically proved that, under the Pharaohs of the XlXth Dynasty, Lake Timsah and the valleys of Saba Biar and Abu Balah were part of the Red Sea. This view is confirmed by the physical features of the country, for the depression of Lake Timsah has a narrow extension
gulf.
The
city
opolis.
M. Naville
also
found
at
Tell
tablet of
Ptolemy Philadelphos
in
andria.
This tablet gives many data which not only confirm the
show
Nome
the
M.
is
to be expected.
lo
that temple.
City of Goshen.
In the different
Nome
lists
it
is
also
named,
alter-
Nome natively with Pi-Tum, as the chief sanctuary of the Vlllth of Thuku. of Lower Egypt, and always as belonging to the region
two imNaville therefore concludes that this region contained Pikerehet, portant sanctuaries very near to each other, Pi-Tum and called a temple The Greeks the latter being the closer to the sea.
M.
official itinerary of
the
Roman Empire
Serapeum, or Serapiu, as being some eighteen miles distant from Ero; and since we know of no other temple of Osiris in the neighbourhood of Heroopolis, Pikerehet must be the There are no traces of ruins which can Serapiu of the Itinerary.
mentions a
city of
at the foot
The
tablet
of
speaks
Pikerehet
of the
for
and
cattle
given
to
the
sanctuary
annual
support.
passage
from one of the xixth Dynasty Anastasi papyri already mentioned, indicates that the more immediate eastern neighbour-
hood
of
as
Now
translated in the
Hence
M. Naville concludes
Pikerehet of the
delphos.
Nome
and
of the tablet
GOSHEN.
M. Naville's researches
as the site of Pi Sopt (the
capital
at Saft-el-Henneh led him to identify it Abode of Sopt), which was the religious of the xxth Nome of Lower Egypt. This Nome was
known
to the
Egyptians as the
Nome
it
of Sopt or
Soptakhem, and
Arabian
was
Nome of Greek and Roman writers. The civil capital of the Nome was Pa Kes, from which came its Greek name of Phacusa
M. Naville found this name "Kes" in the inscriptions of the shrine of Nectanebo li (xxxth Dynasty, b.c. 367 350), at Saft-el-Henneh, and in such connections as showed that it
{Pha-Cusa).
Land of Goshen.
was
at the civil capital called
ii
this
shrine, in
the
religious
capital,
Therefore Phacusa
site now The names of
capital,
Gesem, which
is in
the
Nome
strictly referring
to a limited district,
Kesem (Gesem)
is
mentioned
minatives
as to
in
in
the
Temple
lists
show
stood the
hence the
that it is the civil name of the district and city in which Temple of Sopt, the God of the Arabian Nome, and land of Goshen was the country around Saft-el-Henneh,
lying
Saft,
Belbeis
and Tel-el-Kebir.
lo,
Kesem
of
T arabia;
and
T arabia,
call
" the
Arabia,"
i.e.,
in
the Hauf,
Red
Sea, which
where the
Nome
time when
further concludes that at the " the Israelites occupied the land, the name " Goshen
M. Naville
belonged to a region which had as yet no definite boundaries, and which extended with the increase of the people over the territory
they inhabited.
He
Ramses"
that
included
Rameses ll (xixth Dynasty, B.C. 1300 1250) enriched with innumerable works of architecture, and which corresponds with the present province of Sharkieh. The city of Raamses {^Exodus i, 1 1 ) was situate in the Arabian Nome, but its
identification cannot
be regarded as established.
1 In the Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology for June 1893, and writing on the newly ascertained Egyptian personification and worship of the zodiacal lights of the morning and evening twilights the God Sopt being that divine personification, and Pi Sopt or Pa Sopt the chief seat of his worship Brugsch shows that Gesem, the Coptic form of the ancient Egyptian name Keset, which was the name of the civil city Phacusa, means " the city of the twilights." The land of Goshen was so called as belonging to the city of Goshen.
Among
region which perhaps extended further northward, but which certainly comprehended the Wady Tumilat, wherein was situated the
city of
Bound for Joseph met when the Patriarch came to Egypt. The northern before them. Palestine, two different routes lay It went from route had been followed by the great conquerors. Tanis to the Syrian coast; it was the shortest way, but it went
through several fortresses, particularly the great stronghold of Zar.
Besides, the
first
part of
it
This northern
Philistines ;
first,
it is
they followed,
The
other was the southern route, which their ancestor Jacob had
still
They went
straight
and
The
Israelites
had only
Gulf
to
far as its
;
at a short distance
from Succoth
ward, they would skirt the northern shore of the Gulf, and reach
the desert and the Palestine
"The
It is
useless
now
will
that
we must here understand the name land of Rameses rather than to the city the land must have been either west or north of Pithom. The first station is Succoth, Thukut or Here it is important to observe that the name of the Thuktt.
as referring to the
;
From
31.
Etham.
place where the IsraeHtes
first
13
is
encamped
not the
name
of a city
but the
name
time of the Exodus, there existed not only Pithom, but the
cations
which
Rameses
1 1,
his
predecessor, and
successor had
It
is
quite
camping ground of such a large multitude must have had a great extent. It was not at Pithom that the Israelites
halted; the gates of the fortified city were not opened to them,
insufficient to contain
They pitched
built,
very likely near those lakes and those good pastures to which
to
the
cattle.
site of the
next
as a city,
and
even as a
that
The name
we
Etham, but
papyrus
for a district, a
that,
Saneha says
in his
leaving the
Lake of Kemuer, he
Atima, which could not be very far distant. Let us now consult a document of the time of the Exodus, the papyrus Anastasi VI,
and read
in
M. Brugsch's
translation, "
We
of the Shasu of the land of Atuma to pass the stronghold of King Menephtah of the land of Succoth, towards the lakes of Pithom-
of King Menephtah of the land of Succoth ; in order to feed themselves and to feed their cattle in the great estate of Pharaoh." That
is
what
papyri
call
It
nomads, and as
to the
was
obliged to ask to share the good pastures which had been assigned
Israelites.
it
The
hieroglyphic determinative of
its
name
indicates that
was a borderland.
and
that
its
it
name seem
was "on the edge of the wilderness" {Exodus xiii, 20). Another reason which induces me to think that Etham was a region, and not a city, is that in Niimbers (xxxiii, 6, 7, 8) we read
of the "wilderness of Etham," in which the Israelites marched three
14
This desert, then, would have its name; extended very far south of the city from which it derived have and one does not see how Etham, an Egyptian city, would inhabited by a Semitic population on given its name to a desert
days after having crossed the
the opposite side of the sea.
I
believe, therefore,
Etham
to be the region
ofAhma;
the desert
which began at Lake Timsah and extended west and south of it, near the Arabian Gulf. As this desert was occupied by Shasu and Satiu, Asiatic nomads of Semitic race, they may have had, some-
where on the shore opposite to Egypt, a sanctuary dedicated to and this was not necessarily a large place. their god Baal Zephon It may have been a small monument, a place of worship or of pilgrimage, like those numberless shekhs' tombs which are found
;
on the
hills
and mountains
of Egypt.
The
we now know
well, the
neighbourhood of Tell
el
the desert, skirting the northern shore of the gulf, and thus reach
the wilderness of
Etham; but
of the pursuit of
Pharaoh, they have to change their course: they are told to retrace
between them and the desert. Holy Writ can only be determined conjecturally. Surveys and excavations are needed to give us accurate However, although it is impossible yet to bring information.
their steps so as to put the sea
The next
indications of
in
will
Lord spake unto Moses, saying: 'Speak unto the children of Israel that they tura and encamp before Pi-hahiroth between Migdol and the sea, over against Baal-Zephon; before it
the
shall ye
"And
We
must bear
encamp by the sea.'" {^Exodus xiv, 2). in mind that the sea was only
it
at a
very short
Biar.
Judging from the appearance of the ground, as it is given maps, it is clear that the gulf must have been very narrow
space between Lake Timsah and the Bitter Lakes.
in the
in the
left
We
have
There they
receive
SeA.
15
command
to
camp near
back
They
are obhged,
to pass
the gulf, somewhere near Magfar, then to march towards the south
to the place
which
is,
is
indicated as their
are
question
now
Where
we
to look for
As
mention a Migdol, or Magdolen, which was twelve Roman miles distant from Pelusium. It is not possible to admit that this is the
is
spoken of
in
Exodus,
for then
it
would not
would
Israelites
to fall in with
MM.
narrow
However ingenious
based,
I
believe
it
know
possible to admit
that from the shore of the Arabian Gulf, the Israelites turned to
the north, and marched forty miles through the desert in order to
lasted several
front
days
of
the
land of the Philistines, which they were told not to take; and,
lastly,
cities,
would have
Besides,
that
it
of the sea,
is
it
is
natural to think
close
by,
of which
they are
is
skirting
forty
not that
miles
these
reasons induce
me
to give
up
as
by the
north,
and to return to
Red
Red Sea
was
and
not the
position.
Red
Sea
of
to-day,
of the word
It is
Migdol xs
a very
common name;
means
2.
fort, a tower.
l6
SeA.
Other, either
them, or by some
number
at the
of Torre.
phenomenon which
took place on such a large scale when the Israelites went through,
it is
often seen
now
in
other parts
As
was
liable to
be driven back
to
have there a
sea,
a Migdol, so
as
and
the desert from using this temporary gate to enter Egypt, to steal
cattle
fertile
Pithom.
There
camp near
Migdol, Baal Zephon, so that they could not miss the spot, which,
perhaps, was very restricted.
of the camping ground of the on the north-west Pi-Hahiroth, Pikerehet, not very far from Pithom on the south-east Migdol, near the present SeraIsraelites
: ;
We
peum
in front
hill
on some
Shekh Ennedek, Baal Zephon. There, in the space between the Serapeum and Lake Timsah, the sea was
like
much depth, the east wind opened the and the Israelites went through. This seems to me, at present, the most probable route of the Exodus. I think it agrees best with what we know of the oeoBesides,
it
does
not suppose very long marches, which would have been quite impossible with a large multitude; the distances are not very great
to the
Roman
invaluable.
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X Heracleopolite
XI Theban, or Diospolite
Elephantine, near Syene Memphis ... Memphis .. Ahnas (Heracleopolis Magna) Ahnas
,,
Thebes (Diospolis)
2826
Theban
,,
2783 2570
21 17
XIV Xoite
Xoi's, in the
Delta
(HYKSOS PERIOD).
XV Hyksos
XVI Hyksos
Avaris (Tanis Avaris
?)
2003
1933
Thebes (Diospolis) Thebes XIX Theban Thebes XX Theban Thebes XXI Tanite,and the Priest Kings Tanis and Thebes
,,
,,
XXII Bubastite
XXIII Tanite XXIV Saite
...
Bubastis
Tanis
Sa'is
934 814
725 719 66s
...Sais
B.C.
XXV
Ethiopian
...
Thebes
Sais
XXVI Saite
PERSIAN PERIOD.
XXViith Dynasty [Susa]
B.C.
408
587
XXIX Mendesian
Mendes
XXX Sebennyte
Sebennytus 350
MACEDONIAN RULE. B.C. 332 B.C. 305. PTOLEMAIC PERIOD. B.C. 305 B.C. 30.
ROMAN PERIOD. B.C. 30 a.d. 394. BYZANTINE RULE. a.d. 394 a.d. 638. A.D. 638, THE ARAB CONQUEST.
21
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(b.C.
Eratosthenes (b.C. 276-196). A fragment of his "Chronographia," preserved by Syncellus, contains a list of thirty-eight Theban Kings. DiODORUS SiCULUS (contemporary of Julius Caesar and Augustus). Book I of his "Historical Library" is exclusively devoted to Egypt, and later portions of his work give us invaluable information relating to the Persian period. He travelled in Egypt about B.C. 57. Strabo (about B.C.54-A.D.20: Augustus to Tiberius). His "Geography" takes into account all that he found to be most interesting and characteristic in every country. Book xvii deals with Egypt, where he travelled B.C. 24. Pliny, the Elder (a.d. 23-79). His "Natural History," which he compiled from literary sources, and not from observation, incidentally describes some of the products and monuments of Egypt, often as marvels, and summarises the geography. Josephus, Flavius (a.d. 37 to about 100). In his Greek "Jewish Antiquities," Josephus gives a fuller account of the Egyptian life of the Children of Israel than that given in the Old Testament. In his treatise defending Jewish culture and antiquity against the attack of Apion, he quotes many ancient authors in reference to the Exodus; above all, he gives long extracts from Manetho's history of Egypt. Plutarch (about a.d. 50 130). There are references to Egypt in his "Parallel Lives," and other works; his treatise on Isis and Osiris is exclusively devoted to considering the Egyptian religion. Ptolemy, the Geographer (flourished in Alexandria A.D. 139-160, surHe describes Africa and Egypt in Book IV of his viving Antoninus Pius). "Geography" of the then known world. This work was the great geographical text-book of Europe for more than a thousand years.
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(A.D.
264
Allusions Egypt are contained His chronicle of Egyptian history chieflyvarious taken
,
340).
to
in
is
is
most
fully
preserved in an Armenian
A.D.) This chronicler predecessors, including
also
GeORGIUS Syncellus (lived in the 8th Century made large extracts from the writings of his
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Major.
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40
46
TnaU CoajS-
III.
Table of the Nomes, with their Capitals and the Gods worshipped
IN
THEM
(i
to
XX
of
to xxii of
Upper Egypt).
II
Desert
Cultivated land and
pasturage
|
SCALE OF MILES
D'
Table of the Nomes, with their Capitals and the Gods worshipped
IN
them
(ix to
IV
Table of the Nomes, with their Capitals and the Gods worshipped
IN
THEM
(i
to IX of
Upper Egypt).
EKHMIM TO PHILAE.
MAP OF ETHIOPIA.
VI.
ASWAN TO SEMNEH.
MAP OF ETHIOPIA.
VII.
V
CO
Pii
CO
D Q O X M X
ni
a,
Adda,
Abd
el
Hab
(Kokreb),
Eb Aden Ammam, D g
Addereworri,
Abkor, C g Aboody, C f
Abonkir,
Adiabo,
Afat,
F
g
Tower,
b
(desert),
C
f
Agabl,
Absari,
(bay)
Agayl,
Eh Bi
C
g
f I,
Absol,
Abtin,
D D
g g
Abu Ahmed, D g
Bellah (lake),
Argo and
Arkhab,
Asfoun, Asgade,
Ashrafi,
D
F
I.,
d
i
,,
el
Kudeirat,
,. ,,
,,
el
el
Sheb, B e Weibe, E b
Askalan,
Asrafi,
Dg
g
,,
Hamid, B h Hawara, D c
Kelid,
Dc Do I., D c
(well),
Assanaga
Dom,
Egb,
Dg
D
i
i
Akaba
Akaba,
Bo (gulf), D
B
c
ez Zusar,
,,
,,
Fatmeh, C g
Gerad, C
Girgeh,
Gusi,
,,
,,
Atbara,
o
Dh Eh
(river)
,
Atbara
Atfeh,
E b-i
Cg
Akka
Akra,
(Acre),
Df
,,
Hashim,
Alem
el Halfi,
,,
,,
Al Engreyah,
Alexandria,
Bb Dg
b
Eo Do Azidei, E b
Ayina,
Algeden,
Algueib,
B Eh Dg
Baaluk, E Baga, D h
AUataksora (mountain),
Mohary, B Nub, D h
Odfa,
,,
Dg Saghara, B o
Said, C e Samud, G h
,,
Bahr
bela
Ma,
Baidib, E Bakri,
Df B b-c-d Df
Amka, C
Cg
,,
D D
Amman, E
Balat,
Seiyal,
Ch
Dh
e
Abut, D i Abutaki, B b
Abutingil,
Bardowal
Haifa),
(lake),
Abu
Acre
Usher,
(or
Ch
Akka)
Barea,
Ph
(cataract),
Bareedy
Bar
el
Hadjar,
Changur, C h
El Abid, C
Adek,
c
i
Baslein,
Batn el Bayuda
,,
g Hajar,
C
C h
Dh Chime, D o
Cheli,
(well), C;li
Coorcoor
Cosseir,
(oasis),
(steppe),
(desert),
Aliab,
,,
Dh
i
Bazeh, E i Bedareh, C d
Amra, C
Arak,
Bedshem,
Beillany,
D
C
a
f
Beisan,
E
C
Beit
el
Gawa, C g
Belagenda,
Belbeis,
Ph
,,
C g
Arish,
,,
,,
Db Bagara, D g Beda, E d
(island),
Elbeh
,,
(mountains),
b Eeber.^D e
Cf Damanhoor, C b
Dameur,
or Nafadik,
,,
Damietta, C b
Bum, C h
Busaireh,
D Berber, D
Berab,
Darmout,
g
Ed De
C
o
Dashoor,
Dg
C
e
Dead
Sea,
,,
Gimmez,
Gindi,
D
h
Bermin, C c Bersbeh, C o
Bettera,
Bir,
,,
,,
,,
C d
,,
Abu
Hadgir,
Birbe,
Delta, the,
,,
Hagra,
Hareib,
Dh Eh
,
Bir Darfaooi,
,,
el el
,,
d Mashiyah, D o Nabeh, D f
D
b
Denderah, D d Dendur, D e
Derr,
,,
,,
es Seb,
Derrer,
Shamael,
D
C
Birket el Haj,
,,
g b
Desoor,
Dh Dd
(Old),
,,
,,
Diggo,
Fh
C g
Helba,
Eurun, C e Temseh,.C;b
Dongola (North), C g
Helleh,
,,
Hibeh,
Hiss,
Dd Dd
f
Bir Nauarik,
,,
Doosh, C e
Dougiyet,
Dra,
Sarniyeh,
Sreb,
Cg
D D
Cg
,,
,,
Birti,
Cg h
e
Bd Duderdabb,
,,
Biaagra,
Dungum
(spring),
,,
Bisha,
Fh
Dunkuaz,
Ebar,
Ebret,
Bh
,,
Jindel,
,,
Ka'a,
Eh
t
Kab,
Bd Eo Dd
,,
Dg
D
b
e
,1
Kabur, g Ealabsheb,
Kalas,
,,
,, ,,
C g Eantara, C
Bnlu
el Argol,
Cd
Easan,
Easr,
,.
D
d
Burkat
Cairo,
(island),
,,
C b
Bkhmin, C d El Abaca, D h
,,
Bo
d
Eersh,
Carmel (monntain),
Ceiga,
Abdeh,
,,
,,
Df
Abeidieh,
,,
Eharjeh, C d Ehulasah, D b
Gabra,
Dh
Ch
Gallaweeh, C d
C g Eurum, D g, Manawi, D g
Gamba
(wells),
Harrat el Khuturra, F d Harrat e' Sydenyin, E o Harrat Moahit, F d Hasabala, E i Hassanee (island), E e Hawaia, D h
Be Dh
Gd
Dh Hemenar, C g
Hellet,
Mashitah,
E
b
Dg
Mek,
Dh
F
Gau
el
Kebir,
Melohat,
,,
Gaza,
Gedia,
Db Dh
e
i
Id Nibeg, C
Igadeh,
lizeam,
Iran,
C
f
,,
Sonane,
Sugaleb,
Eh Eh
Fi Bi
g
Ismailia,
Itfu,
C d
Uk,
Gertod,
Em
Wasta, C d Matre, E g
Mogran, D g Ensheyfa, P d
Jafa,
Db
D
d
Jaffatine (island),
Dg
Dc Erment, D d Er Eih, E b
EreBais,
Girgeh,
Girri,
C d
i
Girshe,
D
C
Golhan
Goorti,
(island),
f
,,
Bh Ailo"n, E b Anaz, F d
Ain,
Araif en Nakah,
Goorgote,
,, I,
Asma,
Ataka,
Dg
C
o
Gos Kedjeb,
Eh
,,
Guba,
Dh
,,
Bs Eb
Safiyeh (wells),
Ch
E'Sh'habboo,
Salayieh,
d
i
Bakutueb, E h Baran, D e
,,
Dh
Df Dh Dokhan, D d
Bisbish,
Cheki,
el
Saribe,
Ch
,, Sueimanieh, Etsrah, F b
Dg
Dh Turiab, D Eynunah, E e
Et Tih,
Ezrak,
Abia,
li
'
Blag,
el
el
Oh
Ch
Erefah,
Dh
,,
,,
Hagr,
elTyh,
Erefah,
Dh Dc
elTyh.Dc
Hadanet,
E li
Ch
E
g
Fadasi, D
Brkowit,
DBF c-d-e
,,
es Sofiyeh,
Eynunah,
ez Zega, ez Zeit,
Dh Eo
Faioum
(the),
Di Farafreh, B d FarasB, D e
Fakirkir,
Pd Hakl, D Halfaha,
Halfiyeh,
,,
Cg
,,
Fariad
(island),
Cg
Farmundi, C f Farshoot, C d
Fateereh,
(wells),
,,
D
g
o
f
Ch
,,
Ammur, E
Fayab,
Feiran,
Ferket,
,,
D
C
Hauran, E a Hawi, C h
Helal,
Feshn, C c
Filik,
Eh E
e
Cg
Foul Bay,
Haou, C d
Kufrah, KnlgeU,
Kureb,
Dg Dc Cg Eh
Kalat Kalat
Mandera, C f Masrura, C i
Hessy,
Belka,
Sawa,
b
f
Eodokol, C g Koft, D d
Eokan,
e
e
Eorosko,
Eash
(wells),
Korrobi,
Eorti,
Eorti,
D
g
e
Owdum, C h
Paraseh,
Eeft,
Fh
Cg Kasr Ahmed, D d
Easinkar,
el
,,
Rosas, D d Sakbar, C d
Salakh,
Sebteb,
Serbal,
,,
, ,
E E
g
c
D Eous, D
C
d
f
Eoye,
Ereder,
Eubaneeb,
Kubishi,
D
g
Kueh,
Kufit,
Sberrara,
Sbigre,
Silsili,
Eassala,
,,
,,
,,
Eatieh,
E h Db
(cataract),
Dd Ph
C
g
Eufriat (wells),
Eauwumi, C d
Eazeroon
Kunawat,
B
C
a g
Kurukol,
Kednet, F h Eeueineitab,
Kenneb
(old),
Dg Dd
Euskus, C g Kutraneh, B b
,,
,,
Tobeyk, P c Tuenai, E g
Uriba,
Dh
C h
,,
g
e
Eez
Zaraf,
Ehan Yunas,
D
C d
B Jerasb, E
Jelall,
b
(island),
,,
Jerin el Ful,
Jerizet
W. Jemal
,,
,,
e
f
Jerusalem,
,,
Kababish, C h
Eabati,
,,
,,
Dh
(cataract),
Oalaz,
Makafab, Makhgar,
Maleki,
Ef D d D
h
e
i
Kabenat
Eabushi,
Cg
el
Wabari,
Makhmudieh,
Dh E
o
Eadd Dbaba,
,
,,
C h Fagedel, B h
ez Zaraf,
,,
,, ,, ,, ,,
Gergaf,
Manakil, D Manfaloot,
Bh Harabsoid, E h
Hambut,
Hassanawi, C h Kashmil, E i
Cg
i
Eaibub, C
Kaisariyeh,
,,
,,
D
E
Mareotis
(lake),
Marowan,
Eas Gharib,
,, ,,
Gimsah,
Golhan, Jerboah,
Jusreah,
Dc Do Ee
F
e
f
,,
,,
E
E
d
,,
,,
Kurkumah, E d
Maharash,
Marabat,
E
d
,,
,,
MelkelOud,
Mrek,
De
e
D E
E
Mohammed, D
Eowa,
f
Mehallet,
Meherjg,
Mekerif,
Cb Cd
g
c
Eassay,
Eh
Eas Shagra,
Tobit,
D
b
d
e
Tundeba,
Meks, B b Melawi, C
Melnia,
,
W. Turiam, Eedesia, D e
Eh
b
Eeyaneh, C d
Menouf C
Eoocan
Oasis, Coorcoor,
,,
(island),
Dh E
f
C
c
Eosetta,
C b
Great,
Lesser,
d-e
Eowa
(Eanai) bay,
,,
Eoway,
f
Selimeh, Western,
B B
E g Di
D D
d d
Obisco,
Eh
e
e
of,
German, E a
Safaj (island),
Okmeh, C Olag, G g
D
d
Dh
D
E
C-D
g
d-e-f
Om Bak, D
Dhayr
Doban,
el
Saghe,
Mersa Amid,
Arrakea,
Said, the,
Sakai es Safiyeh, C
Salalat,
(desert),
Cg
Salamad
e
i
(wells),
C g
Omdurman, D h
Salehiyeh,
C b
c
Ef Ef Mubarik, D Shab, B e
Fedja,
Haleib,
Om
,,
Abas,
E
G
i i
Samelood,
Kadissa,
Sammoud, C
Samunt,
Sarras,
,,
Kohl,
D
f
,,
Sayala,
Say
Palinurus (rock), E e Petra (ruina of), E b
Philae,
(island),
Seberget (island),
Zebaider,
Sebou, C e Sedinga, C
Seflac,
C d
Sefurieh,
Seilab,
Midian, Minieh,
E
C
a
o
Mirkisseh,
Ea Dg Sekket, D e
B
i
Mitkinab, E h Mitraheny, C c
Mogarra (wells), B e Mograt (island), D f Moie tel Abd, D d Moilah (wells), D d Moilah (Muweileh), E
Moser,
Senmeh,
Senour,
Serra,
Cf Eb
Seriba Ambareb,
Eh
Dd E e
f
Serra Garby,
Elba,
Feger,
E
F
F
C
El Haif,
Furtul,
B
c
Ghadireh,
Moshi, Mousa,
Suady,
Shaba, G g
VI.
Shadwan
Shaluf,
Shaibarah
(island),
Dd E d
Suega,
Suez,
Cd
b
Urbi,
TJrikeis,
i
a
Gir,
f
Suhani,
Shamba,
B li Dh
Suk Abu
Sin,
Wady Abu
Cg
1
Absa, d
AUake,
Allake,
Df
C
el
Amadan, F d
Sheikh
,,
Walia, D h Hassan, D h
,,
Tahta,
Tageta,
,,
Sheikieh,
Shendy,
Dh Dh
Cc P o
c
Dh
C
d
i
De Eg Amur, D g
Amai, Amet,
Arab, E g Arabah, c
Dafielli,
Tahtah,
,,
Dh
Sherafeh,
Shererat,
,, ,,
Sherm,
Abban, Abu, E
E
f
Tamaniat, D h Tamanib, E g
f
Abu Amarah, E
Datek,
Tambouk, E g Taneh, C e
Tangoor, C f Tankassi, C g
,, ,,
,,
,, ,,
,,
Tebuk, E o Teheyn, F d
Tel Atrib,
,, ,,
Ammar,
Braikhah,
Charar,
,,
Gar,
,,
Hodein,
E
c-g
B d Gubeten, E f Hassey, E e
Demerah,
Theran
Thofya,
Thulla,
(ruins),
Fg
,,
,,
,,
Humath, F d
Kab,
Fc F"
,,
,,
,,
Moaddan,
Rararit,
Pd
e
Heb
el
Madfu,
Thyale,
D
C
,,
D
i
Kafafah,
Ed
Tiberias (lake),
Tiberias,
,,
,,
Sany,
Fd
Shaab, E f Sheikh, E e
a
f
,,
Shely,
Tinareh,
Tarfeh,
,,
Yenbo,
Shershare,
Tyh, C c
i
,, ,,
Shiban,
Shitah,
Cg Cg
Fd
en Nail, P c Negar, E ,,
Esserba,
D
g
Ferah,
Shuwak,
Sinai,
E
c
Tomat,
E
c
Ghadaghid, Gizzl, P d
Gluarundel,
D D
Sibil Bagadi,
Tomantotal,
Tor,
D
A
B
C
,,
Habob,
Halfah,
Jemal,
Karit,
E
C
g
f
Siugat,
Siout,
g
e
Tosk,
C d
Trinkitat,
,,
Haratreb,
E
e
Siwah,
Toara,
D
C
Siyall (island),
Tuari (cataract),
Tuoki,
Cg
,, ,,
Skaghab,
Sneta,
Ed
e
Kurra,
P d
Soba
Solib,
(ruins),
f
Soleib,
Laemeb,
Langheb,
Malik,
Dg E
,,
Songari,
Sori,
,,
C g Sortot, C g
Sotahl (wells),
Ch
f-g
Souakin,
E-P
Souakin,
g
i
XJmboge, D g Gegaz, E d
,,
,,
Cd
,,
Mokattem, C g-h
Mousa
Nabeh,
(Petra),
Df Naham, D o
Wady
Nar,
Wady
,,
Sirr,
Wundi,
Nejed,
Nejib,
Ed Ed
D
e
Terib Arig,
g
f
Therry,
Fd
urn Kabrit,
E
c
Wah
,,
Dd Satab, E h
Satag,
Sela,
,,
Werran, F a el Bahrieh (Lesser Oasis), B o Dakhel (Western Oasis), B d ,, Kharjeh (Great Oasis), G d-e ,,
b
(El Weg),
Yuba
(island),
Zafaraua
Zagazig,
(island),
D
h
Fh
Wardan,
Zerak
el
b Kurdi,
Dg Ee Shetal, E e
Selem,
Wedge
Zerbul,
Shab,
Woad
Naga,
Wold Medina,
Di Zeribah, D i Zerka, E b
&c.
& III.VIII.
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1888.
255-.
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