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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 666 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PITHOM , one of the " treasure cities " stated to have been built for See also:

Pharaoh by the See also:Hebrews in See also:Goshen during the Oppression (Exod. i. II). We have here the Hebraized See also:form of the See also:Egyptian Petom " See also:House of (the See also:sun-See also:god) Etom," in See also:Greek, Patumos, See also:capital of the 8th See also:nome of See also:Lower See also:Egypt and situated in the See also:Wadi Tumilat on the See also:canal from the See also:Nile to the Red See also:Sea. Succoth (Egyptian Thuket) was identical with it or was in its immediate neighbourhood. The site, now Tell el Maskhuta, has yielded several important monuments, including the best preserved of the trilingual stelae of See also:Darius which commemorated his See also:work on the canal. The earliest name yet found is that of See also:Rameses II. of the XIXth See also:Dynasty, but in one See also:case he has usurped earlier work, apparently of the XIIth Dynasty (a See also:sphinx), and the See also:city was evidently very See also:ancient. Several of the monuments from Pithom have been removed to See also:Ismailia on the See also:Suez Canal. See Ed. Naville, The See also:Store City of Pithom and the route of the See also:Exodus (See also:London, 1885) ; W. M. F. See also:Petrie, Tanis, pt. i.

(London, 1885) ; W. Golenischeff, " See also:

Stele de Darius " in Recueil de travaux relatifs a la philologie et l'archeologie egyptiennes et assyriennes, xiii. 99, and the See also:article RAMESES. (F. LI,.

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