Tahpanhes
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Tahpanhes
Tehaphnehes Daphnae, Taphnas (ancient Greek) Tell Defenneh | |
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Tahpanhes or Tehaphnehes (
Name
The meaning of the name remains uncertain although it appears to be of an Egyptian origin. Biblical scholar John L. McKenzie refers the name to T-h-p-nhsj meaning Fortress of the Nubian, while William Albright adds it means Fortress of Pinehas.[3] Daressy and Spiegelberg connect the name with the hieroglyphic word Tephen.[4][5]
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History
According to the
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When Naucratis was given the monopoly of Greek traffic by Amasis II (570–526 BC), the Greeks were removed from Daphnae and its prosperity never returned; in Herodotus' time the deserted remains of the docks and buildings were visible.
According to the Phoenician papyrus letters, Phoenicians settled in the site.[9]
The site was discovered by Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie in 1886; it was then known by natives as Qasr Bint al-Yahudi, the "Castle of the Jew's Daughter".[10] There is a massive fort and enclosure; the chief discovery was a large number of fragments of pottery, which are of great importance for the chronology of vase-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 century BC. They show the characteristics of Ionian art, but their shapes and other details testify to their local manufacture.[11]
Egyptologist Noël Aimé-Giron proposed to identify Tahpanhes with the biblical location of Baal-zephon based on the Saqqara letter.[12]
See also
Notes
- ^ The Masoretic Text uses the prior spelling in all occurrences except Ez. 30:18, where the latter is found.
- ^ KAI 50 (Phoenician papyrus letter)
- ^ Herodotus (1907). "II.30,107". Histories.
- ISBN 9780684819136.
- ^ a b Wallis Budge, E. A. (1920). An Egyptian hieroglyphic dictionary: with an index of English words, king list and geological list with indexes, list of hieroglyphic characters, coptic and semitic alphabets, etc. Vol II. John Murray. p. 1056.
- ^ a b Gauthier, Henri (1929). Dictionnaire des Noms Géographiques Contenus dans les Textes Hiéroglyphiques Vol .6. p. 41.
- ^ a b Gauthier, Henri (1929). Dictionnaire des Noms Géographiques Contenus dans les Textes Hiéroglyphiques Vol. 6. p. 73.
- ^ Wallis Budge, E. A. (1920). An Egyptian hieroglyphic dictionary: with an index of English words, king list and geological list with indexes, list of hieroglyphic characters, coptic and semitic alphabets, etc. Vol II. John Murray. p. 1059.
- ^ William Flinders Petrie, “Tanis II., Nebesheh, and Defenneh,” Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund 4. London: Trübner & Co., 1888).
- ISSN 0071-108X.
- ^ Volume 14, The Antiquary, 1886
- ^ public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Daphnae". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 825. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ^ Noël Aimé-Giron, ‘Baʿal Saphon et les dieux de Tahpanhes dans un nouveau papyrus Phénicien’, ASAE (1941): 433–460.
References
- WMF Petrie, "Tanis II., Nebesheh, and Defenneh" (the Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1888)
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Easton, Matthew George (1897). "Tahpanhes". Easton's Bible Dictionary (New and revised ed.). T. Nelson and Sons.