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settled the identity of Pitliom : "chief of the storehouse of the temple of Turn or 

 Thuku." Other points are the appellation castra, and the distance from 

 Clysnia, which is clearly nine Eomau miles. There is no trace of an l before 

 vim, unless the monogram of M with a perpendicular line through it stands 

 for M L instead of mi, which is improbable. If Hero or Pithom was only 

 nine miles from Clysma, the site of the latter must be looked for near Lake 

 Timsah, or more probably towards the ancient head of the Bitter Lakes. 



"We still wait the deciijherment of the great stela of Ptolemy Philadelphus 

 and Arsinoe ; but meanwhile to have tviwed the history of Pithom-Succoth- 

 Heroopolis from the foundation by Eanises II. in the fourteenth century 

 n.c, through the twenty-second dynasty and the Ptolemies, under its Egyptian 

 name, and then in its Greek and Roman name till 306 a.d., is no slight feat. 



" I should add that, though I am indebted to M. Naville for the details 

 above recorded, he must not be held responsible for any errors, either in 

 description or inference, which may have crept into my notes." 



