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DAPHNAE (Tahpanhes, Taphne; mod. Defenneh)  , an See also:ancient fortress near the Syrian frontier of See also:Egypt, on the Pelusian See also:arm of the See also:Nile . Here See also:King See also:Psammetichus established a See also:garrison of See also:foreign mercenaries, mostly Carians and Ionian Greeks (See also:Herodotus ii . 154) . After the destruction of See also:Jerusalem by See also:Nebuchadrezzar in 588 B.C., the Jewish fugitives, of whom See also:Jeremiah was one, came to Tahpanhes . When See also:Naucratis was given by See also:Amasis II. the See also:monopoly of See also:Greek See also:traffic, the Greeks were all removed from See also:Daphnae, and the See also:place never recovered its prosperity ; in Herodotus's See also:time the deserted remains of the docks and buildings were visible . The site was discovered by Prof . W . M . See also:Flinders See also:Petrie in 1886; the name " See also:Castle of the See also:Jew's Daughter " seems to preserve the tradition of the Jewish refugees . There is a massive fort and enclosure; the See also:chief See also:discovery was a large number of fragments of pottery, which are of See also:great importance for the See also:chronology of See also:vase-See also:painting, since they must belong to the time between Psammetichus and Amasis, i.e. the end of the 7th or the beginning of the 6th See also:century B.C . They show the characteristics of Ionian See also:art, but their shapes and other details testify to their See also:local manufacture . See W.M .

F . Petrie, Tanis II., Nebesheh, and Defenneh (th Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1888) . E . GR.) See also:

DAPHNE (Gr. for a See also:laurel See also:tree), in Greek See also:mythology, the daughter of the Arcadian See also:river-See also:god Ladon or the Thessalian Peneus, or of the Laconian Amyclas . She was beloved by See also:Apollo, and when pursued by him was changed by her See also:mother Gaea into a laurel tree sacred to the god (See also:Ovid, Metam . 452-567) . In the Peloponnesian legends, another suitor of Daphne, Leucippus, son of See also:Oenomaus of See also:Pisa, disguised himself as a girl and joined her companions . His See also:sex was discovered while bathing, and he was slain by the See also:nymphs (See also:Pausanias viii . 2o; See also:Parthenius, Erotica, 15) .

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