Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Joe Baker <joebaker AT cygnus.uwa.edu.au>]

Hi All

The name of the city prior to the Hyksos' founding of Avaris ("Camp
Refugee") was Rowarty ("Door of the Two Ways"). The successive cities
Rowarty - Avaris - Pi-Ramesses were not built on top of each other. Rather
they were almost next to each other (like overlapping suburbs). The map I
have goes something like this - with the dashes and slashes being the
Pelusiac branches of the Nile. (View with fixed width font, and not with
HTML browser as it will stripe out the spaces)

             /
            / ###
           /#####  Pi-Ramesses
       /--/######
      /  ########
     /   ### /------
    /   /---/
   /---/@@ Rowarty
  |***  @@@
  |******
  | ***** Avaris
  |

Regards
Joe Baker ===========\
Perth                |
Western Australia ===/