RESULTS OF EXCAVATIONS AT’ BUBASTIS. Tee 
often put outside the entrance on each side of the road. 
Generally speaking, it is near the entrances that the statues 
were more abundant. A great many disappeared already in old 
times, or were broken in the destruction of the temple, which 
must have taken place between the Ramessides and the 
Bubastites ; a large number of them were employed by Osor- 
kon I. and Osorkon II. as building material when they repaired 
the temple. 
The more we study the remains of Bubastis, the more we 
are convinced that the place must have been one of the 
favourite resorts of Rameses II., where he stayed repeatedly. 
Bubastis and Tanis were the two great cities of the 
Delta, and no doubt the court came frequently to both. 
Rameses was accompanied by his sons; one of them, Khae- 
muas, who had a high rank in the priesthood, and who was 
inspector of the temples, has recorded his visit to Bubastis on 
a statue of his father. We found also mention of two 
others who had military commands. One, whose statue is in 
Boston, was ‘first cavalry officer of his father, the chief of 
the horse of his majesty, Menthuhershopshef ;”’ the other, 
Menephtah, who became the king of the Exodus, was at that 
time a general of infantry, and he appears several times on 
sculptures making offerings to the god Amon. 
Not far from Bubastis was a foreign nation, which from a 
small tribe had grown to be a large multitude, and which had 
never amalgamated with the Hgyptians. I have already alluded 
before to the vicinity of the land of Goshen, only a few miles 
distant ; but the restricted limits of the original land had been 
broken through, and the Israelites must have spread in the south 
towards Heliopolis, and in the East in the Wadi Tumilat, the 
road through which foreign invaders would enter Hgypt. One 
may well conceive that Rameses who, in spite of his outward 
show, must have felt how much his kingdom was weakened, 
grew rather anxious at the presence of a great number of 
strangers occupying the very gate of Egypt, and that he 
desired to turn their presence to a benefit for Egypt. ‘There- 
fore he employed them to build fortresses destined to protect 
the land against invaders. The Exodus describes in the fol- 
lowing way the fear which took hold of the king: ‘ And he 
said unto his people: Behold, the people of Israel are more 
and mightier than we: come let us deal wisely with them ; 
lest they multiply, and it come to pass that, when there 
falleth out any war, they also join themselves unto our 
enemies, and fight against us, and get them up out of the land. 
Therefore, they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them 
with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store cities, 
