PITHOM, or Phithom, one of the Exod. i. 11.Cities that the Children of Israel built for Pharaoh in Egypt, during the Time of their Servitude. This is, probably, the same Herodot. l. 2.City as Pathumos mention’d by Herodotus, which he places upon the Canal made by the Kings Necho and Darius, to join the Red-Sea with the Nile, and by that Means with the Mediterranean. We find also, in Strab. Ptolem. Plin. &c. Descript. Ter. Sanct.the ancient Geographers, that there was an Arm of the Nile, call’d Pathmeticus, Phatmicus, Phatnicus, or Phatniticus. Bochart says, That Pithom and Ramesses are about five Leagues above the Division of the Nile, and beyond this River: But this Assertion has no Proof from Antiquity. This Author contents himself with relating what was said of Egypt in his own Time. Marsham will have Pithom to be the same as Pelusium, or Damietta.
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