“58 EDOUARD NAVILLE. 
Pithom and Raamses”’? (Exodus i. 9-11). It was the 
result of my first campaign of excavation to discover the 
site of Pithom, not very far from the present city of Ismai- 
liah; Raamses is not yet known; it is very likely between 
Pithom and Bubastis m the Wadi Tumilat. I cannot dwell 
at great length here on the events of the Exodus; yet I should 
like to mention that the successive discoveries made in the 
Delta have had the result of making the sacred narrative 
more comprehensible in many points, and especially in 
showing that the distances were much shorter than was 
generally thought. For instance, I consider it important to 
have established that Bubastis was a very large city and a 
favourite resort of the king and his family. It is quite pos- 
sible that at the time when the events preceding the Hxodus 
took place, the king was at Bubastis, not at Tanis, as we 
generally believed. 
Menephtah, the king of the Exodus, who is represented as 
general of infantry, also executed statues in the temple after 
he became king, but they are very much broken. 
The Twentieth dynasty, the dynasty of the Ramessides, 
whose kings all bear the name of Rameses, is also represented 
at Bubastis. It is natural that the most powerful of them, 
Rameses III., should not be absent; but what is more 
interesting, we met with one of the later ones, who was 
thought to be an idle prince reigning only nominally, and en- 
tirely in the hands of his vizier, the high priest of Amon. For 
the first time monuments of Rameses VI. have been discovered 
in the Delta, showing that the power of the king still extended 
over the two parts of the country. I found three statues of 
this king : one of red granite of heroic size, standing, has been 
removed to the Boulak Museum; another, in black granite, is 
headless and is still on the spot. The kings of the Twentieth 
dynasty seem to have erected a construction of their own in 
the western part of the temple, a kind of entrance to the hypo- 
style hail. 
After them, in the obscure period of the ‘Twenty-first 
dynasty, the temple must have gone through great vicissitudes; 
I believe that for some reason which we do not know, perhaps 
in some war or rebellion of which no record has been left, it 
was destroyed and partly ruined. I said before that in my 
opinion the beautiful Hathor capitals of the hypostyle hall 
must be attributed to a period much more ancient than the 
Twenty-second dynasty. Several of these capitals have under- 
neath, on the part which rested on the square pillow,a dedication 
to Bast, written by Osorkon I., a king of the Twenty-second 
dynasty. ‘This dedication was not visible, and could not be 
