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by Set his brother^ — the very stream where Thermuthis in all 

 likelihood found the Hebrew babe among the papyrus stems. 

 The alternative names are quite Egyptian. Well might Moses 

 be called Osarsiph and Mushe, and peradventure Tisithen too, 

 as Manetho says. 



It is worthy of notice that among the thousand relics of 

 Deir-el-Bahri was found a beautifully-made oblong box of 

 papyrus like a very neat little hamper, but with the papyrus- 

 leaves so closely joined that it might well be made water- 

 tight by bitumen. It has a carefully-fitted lid. Doubtless 

 the pious love of the faithful Hebrew mother laid her hand- 

 some babe in such a floatino- ark as this. 



I need not mention that every noun used in the story is a 

 genuine Egyptian word. The readers of Canon Cook's 

 admirable essays in the '^ Speaker's Bible " are familiar with 

 this (vol. i., 484). One other relic of great interest found in 

 the dark hiding-place of Deir-el-Bahri reminds us of the 

 history of the Israelites. It is the large, elaborate, and beau- 

 tiful tent of leather used to form the darkened chamber of 

 the funereal barque for the obsequies of Queen Isi-em-Kheb, 

 the last royal personage committed to that sepulchre. This 

 has been carefully described and represented in colours by 

 Mr. Villiers Stuart in his work ''The funeral Tent of an 

 Egyptian Queen.'" The beautiful rose-coloured leather, said 

 to be gazelles' skins, may well recall to our memory the " rams' 

 skins dyed red,'^ of which one of, the coverings of the sacred 

 tabernacle was made, and this fine example of Egyptian work 

 bears witness to the skilful use of such a material for exactly 

 such a purpose. 



Like Seti I. and Rameses II., his grandfather and father, 

 Merenptah is well known by face to students of Egyptian 

 antiquity. Handsome and lordly features he inherited, but a 

 haughty ungenial expression mars their beauty. The plates 

 in Rosellini are most careful copies of the sculptures. It is 

 remarkable that the Egyptians never give the eye in proper 

 perspective as an English artist does. For this we must make 

 allowance in looking at Egyptian reliefs or pictures. 



PitJiom and Barneses. 



Chabas and others have argued that the fortified arsenal 

 Rameses must have been built for the only Rameses (namely 

 the second), who lived long enough to suit the data of the 

 life of Moses. 



The able treatise of Chabas on the nineteenth dynasty was 

 by most Egyptologists thought conclusive. 



