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Manual Of Egyptian Archaeology And Guide To The Study Of Antiquities In Egypt

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51), or dragged to its destination by gangs of labourers, and by the help of rollers.
[Illustration: Fig.

51 .-- Bas-relief from one of the stelae of Ahmes, at Turrah, Eighteenth Dynasty.] [4] The bas-relief sculpture from which the illustration, fig.

42, is taken (outer wall of Hypostyle Hall, Karnak, north end) represents Seti I.
returning in triumph from one of his Syrian campaigns.

He is met at Zaru by the great officers of his court, who bring bouquets of lotus- blossoms in their hands.

Pithom and other frontier forts are depicted in this tableau, and Pithom is apparently not very far from Zaru.
Zaru, Zalu, is the Selle of the Roman Itineraries .-- A.B.E.
[5] See _The Store City of Pithom and the Route of the Exodus,_ by Ed.
Naville, with 13 Plates and 2 Maps; published by the Egypt Exploration Fund.


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