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TELL EL Y A.HOODIEH.

the place chosen was called Leontopolis of the

land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof

Heliopolitan nome, or the fort of Bubastis agria.

to the Lord."

Brngseh-Bey thinks that the name of Leontopolis

The passage states

clearly that

there was

is justified at Tell el Y ahoodieh by the fact that

more than one settlement, and it mentions that

he

one shall be called The City of Destruction.

saw there

fragments

of statues

of Bast

The

which had been brought from the temple of Mut

margin of the revised version gives the following

at Thebes.

note on the word destmctiou:

Those fragments

had disappeared

or, accordinq to

I saw indicated a sanctuary dedicated to Bast.

another reading, "the sun." The Vulgate gives

civitas solis; the Septuagint a word which might

I am inclined

be an Egyptian name, ?ToX1.~ auE8l1e; the Coptic, as

when I made my excavations, and nothing which

to think

that

in the letters

i-B.AK1qe~eK.

Josephus has mixed together and applied to one

usual, follows the Septuagint,

settlement

The Hebrew is ~;;:Tni'~; while many authorities,

circumstances which ref er to several

Jewish establishments.

North of the Heliopolitan

among which the Chaldean

and Saadiah, read

Nome was the Nome of Bubastis, i.e. the Nome

O!}J!:', city of the sun.

of the

goddess.

adopted, it is interesting to notice that' it would

In that Nome were several cities dedicated to

correspond to the name we found mentioned in

Bubastis, and in one of them, the present Belbeis,

the Great

was worshipped the goddess Bekhet, whose name

identified with Tel1 el Y ahoodieh,

lioness-headed

has been translated

or cat-headed

in Greek, Bubasti agria.1

This city might very well be considered as a

Leontopolis,
Lower Egypt.

of which there

were several in

Moreover, about six miles south

Harris

If this last reading be

papyrus,

and which I have

c:i

0
1

9 ~1 ~

llio

the house of Ra, the sun, north of On.

I believe we have the later name of Tell el
Y ahoodieh in two Roman

official documents,

namely, the Itinerary of Aritoninns and the N otitia

of Belbeis there is another Tell el Yahoodieh,

Dignitatnm.

which bears the appearance of a ruined Roman

the eastern part of the enclosure, just in advance

settlement, covered by the sand.

of the two artificial hills, which may have been part

The tradition

I mentioned above that, in front of

of a Jewish colony has in fact survived in various

of a fortification, and which are separated

parts of that district.

gateway, there are

I might also quote the

argument to which J osephus refers twice ; namely,

regularly

the passage in Isaiah (xix. 18) :-

distinctly traceable.

" In that day there shall be five cities in the

built,

remains of a Roman city,

where two main

of a city where the

streets

houses

were simultane-

ously built, and which might have

and swear to the Lord of hosts; one shall be

abode of a military

In that day there

shall be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the

The country Bubastis, or Bubastis the huntress.

lower, Belbeis,

Vid,

colony.

been the

It was suggested

to me by Mr. Griffith that it might be the Scene

Veteranorum of the
account

are

It has all the appearance

land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan,

called, The City of Destruction.

by a

Itinerary.

Taking

into

the positions of' the other stations,

believe this identification

coincides well with

the data of the document, allowing always for

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