The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-10-21
ThE 9ailg g alletin.
PHARAon's HOUSE IN TAHPANHES,
INTERESTING DISCOVERY.

Egyptian Exploration Fund appears
in the London Times of IS. Mr..
Flinders Pctrie has found the site of
the palace in Egypt to which
jeremiah, accompanied by the two
princesses, daughters of Zedekiah,
was brought. To his establishment
he found, on asking his Arab guides
the name of the ruins, that the place
was called to this day Gel Kasr ell
Bint ell Yahudi-the Castle of the
Jews Daughter We give two eN-
tracts, fairly representing the i'm
portancc of this discovery
A very curious and interesting dis
covery has been made in the lone
lest and dreariest corner of the
Northeastern Delta. In a land
where previous explorers have found
only temples and tombs-the monu-
ments of an extinct faith, and the
graves of Il dead nation-Mr.
Flinders Petrie has lighted upon the
ruins of a royal palace. Not
palace of the dubious prehistoric
Byzantine sort, but genuine and
highly respectable structure, with an
unblemished pedigree, and definite
place in the history of four great
nations. In q word, the fortunate
finder of Naukratis has for the last
six or eight weeks been working upon
u large mound, or group of mounds,
called Tell Defenneh, which Egypt
alogists and historians have long
Unidentified with the Pelusiac
Daphne" of the Greek writer's and
the "Tahpanhes'' of the Bible,
Here he has discovered the ruins of
that very palace to which, as record
ed in the Book of the Prophet
jeremiah (chapter xliii.), Johanan,
the son of Kareah, followed by "all
the captains of the forces' and "the
remnant of Judah" brought the
fugitive daughters of Zedekiah, then
dethroned and multilated captive
in Babylon. This flight of the He
brew princesses took place about
b. G. $50, during the reign of Uaab-
Ra Goth Egyptian dynasty) whom
the Hebrews called Hophra, and the
Greeks Apries. The Pharaoh re-
ceived them with hospitality. TO
the mass of Jewish immigrants he
granted tracts of land extending
from Tahpanhes to Bubastis, while
to the daughters of Zedekiah, his
former ally, he assigned this royal
residence, which the Bible calls
"Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes."
Apries Qdophra) brings us to B. c.
sol $40, and to the time of the fight
of the daughters of Zedekiah. 1t
may be that the Egyptian monarch
added on some of the later external
chambers of the "Ksar" for the
accommodation of their suite, for
''all the captains of the forces" all
the mobiles, and priests. and mer-
chants of Judea were among the i'm
migrant multitude. With them also,
sorely against his will and judgment,
came the Prophet jeremiah, whose
first act on arriving at Tahpahnes
was to foretell the pursuit of the
Babylonian host:-
''Then came the word of the Lord
unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,
Take great stones in thine hand, and
hide them in mortar in the patchwork
which is at the entry of Pharaoh s
house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of
the men of Judah; and say unto
them, Thus saith the Lord of Hosts,
the God of Israel: Behold l will
send and take Nebuchadnezzar, the
King of Babylon, My servant, and
will set his throne upon these stones
that have hid; and he shall spread
his royal pavilion over them. And
he shall come, and shall smite the
land of Egypt; such as are for death
shall be given to death, and such as
are for captivity to captivity, and
such as are Tor the sword to the
sword" DER. xiii, s, 8, 10, 11).
We quote the Revised Version,
which has an important alternative
reading in the margin, to which we
/ will presently refer. In the mean
time, here is ayerbatim extract from
page of Mr.. Petrie's journal, writ.
ten early in April:-
"Outside the buildings of the
Ksar, i find by repeated trenchings
an area of continuous brickwork
resting on sand, about 100 feet by
GO feet, facing the entrance to the
later buildings at the east corner.
The roadway ran up recess between
the buildings and this platform. The
platform has no traces of chambers
and seems to be an open-air place
for outdoor purposes, such as load
ing goods, arranging things, &c.
just such place as is needed fol
business, and such as even poo
villagers make before their houses
leveliing a smooth, hard bed of mud
which they keep clean swept, 1t il
curious how exactly this answers t
the brick area 'at the entry O
Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes,' ant
it would be exactly the place where
Nebuchadnezzar would spread hi
royal pavilion The rains have
washed away this area and denudet
the surface, so that, although it il
two or three feet thick near thu
nalaco IL is ra1uoa1 in 0raatar NOR