I. Name

Atum, sun god and eldest of the Ennead of Heliopolis, occurs in the Bible in the place-name Pithom (Exod. 1.11), Gk. Πατουμος, Eg. Pr-Itm ‘House of Atum’. Recently, it has been suggested to explain the place-name Etam (Exod. 13.20; Num. 33.6–8), the etymology of which H. Cazelles was unable to determine with certainty (Cazelles, Les localisations de l’Exode et la critique littéraire, RB 62 [1955] 321–364, 357–359) as an abbreviated spelling of (Pr)-Itm ‘(House) of Atum’ (M. Görg, Etam und Pitom, BN 51 [1990] 9–10). K. Myśliwiec (Zu…