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APPENDIX.
universally conceded. The grounds for suppos-
ing that the "store cities," Ramses and Pi thorn
of Exod. i. 11, were in this valley are allur-
ing. Fortified store-houses would naturally he
where they were wanted in giving provisions to
armies going into Syria, and in furnishing sup-
plies to anticipated travellers. Moreover, there
are heaps of ancient bricks all along this val-
ley, and fragments of monuments bearing the
cartouche of llameses II. M. Naville plausibly
uses his discoveries to show that the route of the
Hebrew exodus was about midway between
Lake Timsah and the modern Suez.
Aside from all this, the tablet of Ptolemy
Philadelphos incidentally gives valuable informa-
tion with regard to the money used in the Ptole-
maic period, and the revenues of ancient Egypt.
It discloses the fact that taxes were imposed
both on persons and on houses ; that the animal
revenue received by the king was fourteen thou-
sand eight hundred talents of silver; that the
temples of Egypt received annually five hun-
dred talents; that it was in the month Choiak,
in the twenty-first year of the reign of this
Ptolemy, that statues were first raised to the
two divine Philadelphi, and the worship of
them was established.
APPENDIX.
universally conceded. The grounds for suppos-
ing that the "store cities," Ramses and Pi thorn
of Exod. i. 11, were in this valley are allur-
ing. Fortified store-houses would naturally he
where they were wanted in giving provisions to
armies going into Syria, and in furnishing sup-
plies to anticipated travellers. Moreover, there
are heaps of ancient bricks all along this val-
ley, and fragments of monuments bearing the
cartouche of llameses II. M. Naville plausibly
uses his discoveries to show that the route of the
Hebrew exodus was about midway between
Lake Timsah and the modern Suez.
Aside from all this, the tablet of Ptolemy
Philadelphos incidentally gives valuable informa-
tion with regard to the money used in the Ptole-
maic period, and the revenues of ancient Egypt.
It discloses the fact that taxes were imposed
both on persons and on houses ; that the animal
revenue received by the king was fourteen thou-
sand eight hundred talents of silver; that the
temples of Egypt received annually five hun-
dred talents; that it was in the month Choiak,
in the twenty-first year of the reign of this
Ptolemy, that statues were first raised to the
two divine Philadelphi, and the worship of
them was established.