Tahpanhes
Coordinates: 30 ° 51 ′ 38 ″ N , 32 ° 10 ′ 17 ″ E
Tahpanhes, Tahapanes, Tahaphnehes (also Tachapanches, Tachapanes ), today's Tell Defenneh , is the biblical name of an ancient Egyptian place in the eastern Nile Delta and was about 22 km from Pelusium on Lake Manzala .
In Greek records, Tahpanhes is known as "Daphnai". The current hill of ruins was given the description “Kasr Bint al Yehudi”, which means “the palace of the daughter of the Jew”.
The large number of remains of Greek pottery uncovered during archaeological excavations confirmed the assumptions that Daphnae was the garrison built by Pharaoh Psammetich I , in which mainly Carian and Ionian Greeks lived.
In the book of Jeremiah in chapters 43 and 44 ( Jer 43-44 EU ) it is described how part of the people of Judah fled against the will of God to Egypt after the conquest of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar II and the subsequent death of Gedaliah , and to Tahpanhes got.
literature
- Flinders Petrie : Tanis. Volume II: Nebesheh (am) and Defenneh (Tahpanhes) (= Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund. Volume 5). London 1888.
Web links
- Federico Contardi: Tachpanhes. In: Michaela Bauks, Klaus Koenen, Stefan Alkier (Eds.): The Scientific Biblical Lexicon on the Internet (WiBiLex), Stuttgart 2006 ff.
- Egypt Exploration Society: DAFANA, T. [212].
- Research project Egyptian - Greek relations at Daphnae (Nile Delta) of the British Museum in London On: britishmuseum.org ; last accessed on April 29, 2016.