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Art. II.—The Exodus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

Extract

One of the most important and significant of the epoch making discoveries of the nineteenth century in ancient Egypt is that of a stele found by Flinders Petrie, containing a hymn of victory of King Merneptah. This victory was one obtained in the fifth year of his reign over the Libyans.

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1901

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References

page 34 note 1 “Diction, géogr.,” p. 113; “Geschichte Aegyptens unter den Pharaonen,” pp. 541 and 593.

page 35 note 1 See Spiegelberg in “Zeitsch. für aegypt. Sprache,” 1896, vol. xxxivGoogle Scholar.

page 35 note 2 See ibid., p. 14.

page 36 note 1 Erman: “Aegypt. Gram.,” 175.

page 36 note 2 See Hommel's “Merneptah u. die Israeliten,” in “Neue kirchl. Zeitsch.,” vii, 7, p. 584.

page 37 note 1 His meaning is indeed “woe,” “bad,” “not,” “without,” etc.

page 42 note 1 Sitzungsber. der kais. Akad. d. Wiss. Wien, vol. xc.

page 42 note 2 Ibid., 1885.

page 43 note 1 Zeitsch. f. aegypt. Spraclie, vol. xxvii, p. 103.

page 45 note 1 Proc. Soc. Bibl. Arch., xvii, 281; Actes du Xme Congr. intern, des Orientalistes à Genève, 1894, Sect, iv, pp. 86, 87.

page 45 note 2 See Eisenlohr's paper: “Die Bestimmung histor. Daten durch die Hülfe der Astronomie” (Xme Congrès intern, des Orientalistes, Sect, iv, p. 84).

page 45 note 3 Zeitsch. f. aegypt. Spr., 1889.

page 46 note 1 Sitzungsber. d. kais. Akad. d. Wiss. Wien, vol. xc, p. 578. Oppolzer here devises the following expression for the length of the Sirius year: “365d 2510284+0·0000004137 (t−139)+0·0000000000322 (t−139)2.”

page 48 note 1 “Geschichte des alten Aegyptens,” ed. Mayer, p. 367.

page 49 note 1 See also the above, p. 400.

page 49 note 2 Decree of Canopus; inscription of Rosetta.

page 49 note 3 Transactions of the Ninth Congress of Orientalists, London, 1892: “The Decree of Canopus.”

page 50 note 1 The Apis Period of the Old Egyptians”: Sitzungsber, . d. kais. Akad. d. Wiss. Wien, 1894, vol. ciii, p. 832 ff.Google Scholar

page 50 note 2 See also Zeitsch. f. aegypt. Spr., 1889, pp. 101, 102, where this circumstance has been already referred to.

page 54 note 1 Leipzig, pub. by Ed. Pfeiffer, 1898.

page 55 note 1 Thes. inscr. Aegypt., pt. i, p. 33 ff.

page 58 note 1 “Zwei Hauptprobleme,” p. 150, 11. 1–3.

page 58 note 2 See Zeitsch. f. aegypt. Sprache, 1889, p. 99.