Note 19 — Chapter I · THE HEBREW PATRIARCHS

The text, which is on a stela found in the ruined temple of Isis at the south-east corner of the great pyramid of Gizeh, is now in the Cairo Museum. It has been published by M. Daressy in the Recueil des Travaux relatifs à la Philologie et à l’Archéologie égyptiennes et assyriennes (xvi. 3, 4, 1894), and is dated in the third year of king Ai. It follows from the inscription that ‘the domain called that of the Hittites’ lay to the north of the great temple of Ptah, and immediately to the south of two smaller temples built by Thothmes I. and Thothmes IV. In the time of Herodotos there was a similar district assigned to the Phœnicians, and known as ‘the Camp of the Tyrians,’ on the south side of the temple of Ptah (see my Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos, p. 251).