Explorations in Bible lands during the 19th century (1903)
Hilprecht, H. V. (Hermann Vollrat), 1859-1925, Benzinger, I. (Immanuel), 1865-1935, Hommel, Fritz, 1854-1936, Jensen, P. (Peter), 1861-1936, Steindorff, Georg, 1861-1951 · Philadelphia : A. J. Holman · leaf 761
east of themodern town ofZaqaziq,the Bubastisabove referred to, there extends towards the Suez canal anarrow vallev watered by a canal which branches off at Cairoand flows towards Suez. This vallev is known as the WadiTumilat, and the canal, which is called Ismailiya canal, wasconstructed in the… … Tell el-Maskhiita, the Biblical Fithom DURING W CENTURY: EGYPT 649 into fertile ground. On the south side of this watercourse,about twelve English miles from the modern Ismailiya,is situated an abandoned settlement, Tell el-Maskhuta, Mound of the Statue. At the time of the French ex-pedition a…
