in Ancient Geography, a town built by the Israelites during their bondage in Egypt, and whence the Exodus took place. It must have been towards and not far from the Arabian Gulf; seeing that in their third station the Israelites arrived on its shore.

Rameses, king of Lower Egypt when Jacob went thither with his family, in the 1706th year before the Christian era. Ancient authors mention several other kings of Egypt of the same name; and it is believed that one of these princes erected, in the temple of the Sun at Thebes, the magnificent obelisk which the Emperor Constantine caused to be removed to Alexandria in the year 334. After the death Ramnagar of this prince, his son Constantius had the obelisk transported from Alexandria to Rome in 352, where it was erected in the circus maximus. Its height exceeded 130 feet. When the Goths sacked the city of Rome in 409, they overthrew the obelisk, which continued buried in the sand till the time of Sixtus V. in 1587, when it was found broken in three pieces; but these being joined together, it was set up in the square of St John Lateran.