Pithom, one of the store-cities which the children of Israel built for Pharaoh (Exod. i. 11), conclusively identified in 1883 by the excavations of M. Naville with the deserted Arab village Tell El-Maskhūta, on the Fresh-water Canal and railway line from Cairo to Ismailia, about half-way between Ismailia and Tell El-Kebir. See Naville's Store City of Pithom (1885).
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 202
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