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PHARA0H'S HOUSE.
RUINS OF A PALACE REFERRED TO
BY T':E PROPHET JEREMIAH. =.


Ruins OF Castle In the Midst of the
Mud swRmps Of the NIIe-DiscoSeries
sn Pharaoh's Observation-Disclosures
rar's Victory.
Another very curious and interesting dis
pvery has been made in the lonelieSi and
irearieSt corner of the delta plain Of lower
Egypt In the land where previous explorers
have found only the monuments of an ex-
tinct faith and the graves of dead nation,
Mr.. Flinders Petrie has lighted upon the
ruins OF royal palace. The fortunate finder
Of Norcratis has now been working uuon a
vast mound called Tell Defenneh which his
torianS have long identified with the Pelusiac
Daphne Of the Greeks and the TahpanheS of
tho Bible. Here he has discovered the ruins
Of that very palace TO which, as recorded in
the Book OF the Prophet jeremiah Johanan,
the sou Of kercah, followed by all the captains
and the remnant Of Judah, brought the fugi-
tive daughters Of Zedekiah, then a dethroned
captive in Babylon. TEi. flight Of the He
brew prinCesscs took place about 5Sl B. G.,
during the reign o: Ia ab-Ra, whom the He
brews called Hophra and the Greeks ApTies.
Pharaoh received the fugitiveS kindly.
To the mas of the Jewish immigrants he gave
tracts of land. to the daughters of ZedeEiah.
his former ally he assigned this royal palace,
which the Bible calls "Pharaoh's House in
| TahpanheS"
CASTLE OF THE JEWS DAUGHTER.
Although this part of the delta is now a
wilderness, half marsh, half desert over
which no traveller ever passes, it was at tbs
/ time when these events took place a rich pas
toral district, fertillzcd by the annual over
/ flow of the Nile In the midst of mud
Swamps have long been observed some groups
of ruins 10 one of which was attached the
name Of the Castle of the Jews Daughter
Hearing this from his natives Mr.. Petrie at
once perceived the interest which must a tach
20 the place, and the intelligent labor which
he has bestowed upon it has met with suit
able reward. Not only the architectural
structure, but its history also has been
rescued from Oblivion.
The building was at first a stronghold
quadrangular, lofty, massive, like a castle
keep. Ii contained sixteen square rooms on
each floor, both the outer and partition walls
being of enormous strength. Ii Is, of course
impossible to guess of how many stories it
was originally composed, but it is of its fallen
stones that the mound is made This strong
hold was built by Psammeticus |, as is
proved by the deposits marked with the royal
name and titles, placed under the foundation
walls There were found also the hhation
vessels, specimens of ores, bricks, the bones Of
the OK and bird sacrificed at the time and a
series of tablets with inscriptions The rooms
in the castle were lined with slabs of fine
limestone, covered with hieroglyphics, figures
Of captiveS and the like, deGcately carved and
painted. These are Eow spnntered and
ruined, as the castle was burned as well as
battered down, and very few objects of value
were therefore to be recovered. But the
Easements remain in very perfect condition.
and in the basement were the kitchen, buffers
pantry and scullery, and these domestic
offices become of great interest when they
form part of an Egyptian palace $50 years
old
IN KING PHARAoH's KITCHEN.
The kitchen of Pharaohs house in Tahpan- |
hes is big room, with recesses i'll the thick |
hes of the wall which served for dressers.
There were fourteen large jars and two large |
fat dishes standing unharmed in their |
places, amid the general destruction. A !
stone corn crusher, a large iron knife, weights |
and three small iron spits were found in this |
room In the buffers pantry adjoining were |
no wine jars, but hundreds of jar lids and /
plaster shoppers, some stamped with the |
royal ovals of Psammeticus, and some with |
those Of Necho. his successor. The empty |
jars, with quantities Of other pottery, mostly /
broken, were piled in a sort of rubbish closet /
outside, and next was a small room, sacred to /
the scullery maid or dish washer. 1t con-
tanned a recess with a sink, a bench to stand |
things upon, and recesses in the wall by way
Of shelves. The sink was formed of a large
clay jar with the bottom knocked out, a,d
filed with broken potsher,ls placed on ed,e
The water ran through this and then into
more broken pots below, placed one in an
other, all bottomleSS, going down to the clean
sand below. The potsheris were clogged
with fish bones
In other chambers were found numbers of
early Greek vases, ranging from $50 b. c. to
GOO B. C., some very finely painted with
harpies, sphinxes, dancers and the like: nearly
all, however, were broken, but some can be
mended A sword handle, some scale armor,
bronze rings, amulets, beads, seals, and
especially two rings, engraved with the titles
of priest of Amen, have been found and
many small tablets with inscriptions
Mr.. Petrie has looked diligently for the
stones which Jeremiah hid among the brick
work, and some unhewn stones have been dug
out from below the surface, but to identify
them positively would, of course, be impos-
sible, unless the prophet had previously in
scribed them, which is unlikely Egyptian
inscriptions say that Nebuchadnezar did
come TO Tahpanhes, and spread out his
pavilion on that very spot, as foretold in
Jer~miah's prophecy, but they say that he
was defeated Babylonian inscriptions state
that he conquered, and The truth is hard to
determine. Philadelphia Times
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