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THE CITY
a margin of error which it is impossible not to
recognize when the Itinerary is checked by the sight
of actual ruins, and by explorations made on the
spot.1 Scenes Veteranonim is mentioned twice :
once on the road from Pelusium to Memphis,2 at
a distance of twenty-six miles from Thou, and
twenty-four from Heliopolis; again when3 it
is said to be twenty-two miles distant from
Heliopolis and twenty-four from Thou, from
which it is separated by Vicus Judeeorum,
situate midway between the two. The distance
from Heliopolis is at least ten miles too long,
even if the lowest number, twenty-two, is con-
sidered ; it is therefore impossible not to agree
with Jomard (who also places Scense Veteranorum
at Tell el Yahoodieh) in adopting for the first
of the above quotations the reading 14 (miles)
of several manuscripts, instead of 24 (miles).
Another circumstance which induces me to
1 Vid. "■ Store City of Pithom," 3rd ed., Appendix I. and
map.
2 P. 163, ed. Wesseling. 3 P. 169.
OP ONIAS. 21
think that Scenae Veteranorum was the
present Tell el Yahoodieh is the importance
which the Komans gave to the place. The
Notitia Dignitatum tells us that it was occupied
by the cavalry of an Arab tribe called Thamu-
cleni, and by a wing of Rhcetians. There is no
other place of the size of Tell el Yahoodieh
between Heliopolis and Bubastis, and none so
strongly fortified and so well adapted to receive
a comparatively large garrison.
Summing up the results of this investigation,
I venture to conclude that Tell el Yahoodieh
was known in the time of Eameses III. as
T?!?0^!©'the ]iouse °fRa'011 t]ie north
of On; this being the sacred name of the city.
The civil name has not yet been discovered.
After Ptolemy Philometor had granted to the
Jews the right of settling in Egypt, and of
building a temple, it became Onion, or the cihj
of Onias ; and under the Romans it was called
in the official documents Scence Veteranonim..
a margin of error which it is impossible not to
recognize when the Itinerary is checked by the sight
of actual ruins, and by explorations made on the
spot.1 Scenes Veteranonim is mentioned twice :
once on the road from Pelusium to Memphis,2 at
a distance of twenty-six miles from Thou, and
twenty-four from Heliopolis; again when3 it
is said to be twenty-two miles distant from
Heliopolis and twenty-four from Thou, from
which it is separated by Vicus Judeeorum,
situate midway between the two. The distance
from Heliopolis is at least ten miles too long,
even if the lowest number, twenty-two, is con-
sidered ; it is therefore impossible not to agree
with Jomard (who also places Scense Veteranorum
at Tell el Yahoodieh) in adopting for the first
of the above quotations the reading 14 (miles)
of several manuscripts, instead of 24 (miles).
Another circumstance which induces me to
1 Vid. "■ Store City of Pithom," 3rd ed., Appendix I. and
map.
2 P. 163, ed. Wesseling. 3 P. 169.
OP ONIAS. 21
think that Scenae Veteranorum was the
present Tell el Yahoodieh is the importance
which the Komans gave to the place. The
Notitia Dignitatum tells us that it was occupied
by the cavalry of an Arab tribe called Thamu-
cleni, and by a wing of Rhcetians. There is no
other place of the size of Tell el Yahoodieh
between Heliopolis and Bubastis, and none so
strongly fortified and so well adapted to receive
a comparatively large garrison.
Summing up the results of this investigation,
I venture to conclude that Tell el Yahoodieh
was known in the time of Eameses III. as
T?!?0^!©'the ]iouse °fRa'011 t]ie north
of On; this being the sacred name of the city.
The civil name has not yet been discovered.
After Ptolemy Philometor had granted to the
Jews the right of settling in Egypt, and of
building a temple, it became Onion, or the cihj
of Onias ; and under the Romans it was called
in the official documents Scence Veteranonim..