The (Sea of) Reeds (p<\/em>\u021c<\/em>–<\/em>\u1e6fwfy<\/em>) comes to papyrus reeds and the (Waters-of)-Horus (p<\/em>\u021c<\/em>–<\/em>\u1e25r<\/em>) to rushes.\u00a0 Twigs of the orchards and wreaths of the vine-yards [ \u2026 ] birds from the Cataract region.\u00a0 It leans upon [ \u2026 ] the Sea (p<\/em>\u021c<\/em> ym<\/em>) with bg<\/em>-fish and b<\/em>\u0217<\/em>r\u1f30<\/em>-fish, and even their hinterlands provide it.\u00a0 The Great-of-Victories youths are in festive attire every day; sweet moringa-oil is upon their heads having hair freshly braided.\u00a0 They stand beside their doors. Their hands bowed down with foliage and greenery of Pi-Hahirot<\/strong> (pr-\u1e25wt-\u1e25rt<\/em>) and flax of the Waters-of-Horus.\u00a0 The day that one enters (Pi)ramesses (wsr-m<\/em>\u021c\u02c1<\/em>-r<\/em>\u02c1<\/em> stp-n-r<\/em>\u02c1<\/em>) l.p.h., Montu-of-the-Two-Lands.\r\n\r\nPapyrus Anastasis III <\/em>(2:11-3:4)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThis document, dated to the third year of Ramesses II\u2019s successor, Merneptah (ca. 1222-1212 BCE), locates Pi-Hahiroth on the way from the Sea of Reeds (p<\/em>\u021c<\/em> \u1e6fwfy<\/em>) towards Piramesses.\u00a0 It appears as though Pi-Hahiroth was probably on the south coast of the Sea of Reeds in a marshy area on the edge of the desert.\u00a0 While no one knows the exact location of Pi-Hahiroth, it was probably is in close proximity to Migdol and Baal Zephon.\r\n\r\nEgyptologists have long struggled with the meaning of the pr-\u1e25wt-\u1e25rt<\/em> toponym.\u00a0 And early Egyptologists suggested that it might mean \u201cHouse of (the goddess) Hathor,\u201d assuming that the word \u1e25rt<\/em> was an unusual or mistaken spelling of Hathor. The toponym follows Egyptian convention beginning with the hieroglyphic pr-\u1e25wt<\/em>, \u201cestate of the temple\u201d or \u201chouse of the precinct.\u201d It ends with the goddess character indicating that the final element, \u1e25rt,<\/em> is theophoric.\r\n\r\nWilliam F. Albright suggested that it might mean \u201cthe mouth of the canals,\u201d which he suggested was perhaps a Semitic etymology of the Egyptian Pi-\u1e24-r-t, <\/em>yet this creative solution ultimately did not solve the problem of the theophoric name.\u00a0 He suggested that Heret was the name of a Semitic goddess.\u00a0 The problem is that, even though the name could mean \u201cEstate of the Temple of (the goddess) Heret,\u201d no such goddess is known. Therefore, Albright’s proposal was not a tenable solution to the problem.\r\n\r\nI believe that \u1e25rt <\/em>is an abbreviated spelling of \u1e25ry(t)-tp<\/em>, \u201cthe one who is on top.\u201d The term \u1e25ry(t)-tp<\/em> is one of the epithets of the Uraeus serpent goddess, Wadjet, and therefore, the name would mean, \u201cEstate of the goddess who is on top (=Wadjet).\u201d\u00a0 This solution retains the theophoric aspects of the toponym and is consistent with known examples of the Wadjet epithet (e.g. Karnak Rhetorical Stela [KRI<\/em> V 89.10]).\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After Pithom, the Israelites camped before the fortress of Pi-Hahiroth (Exod 14:2).\u00a0 The origin of the name Pi-Hahiroth comes from the Egyptian pr-\u1e25wt-\u1e25rt.\u00a0 The toponym pr-\u1e25wt-\u1e25rt appears in one extra-biblical text, Papyrus Anastasis III: The (Sea of) Reeds (p\u021c–\u1e6fwfy) comes to papyrus reeds and the (Waters-of)-Horus (p\u021c–\u1e25r) to rushes.\u00a0 Twigs of the orchards and wreaths…<\/p>\n

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