large mound of ruined) walls stood there, and we had Daphnae, the Tahpanhes of Jeremiah. Asking the name of it from an Arab, he replied: "The mound of the Jews daughter." It is named in memory of the flight of the Jewish royal family to that fortress. In front of the entrance was the wide platform of brick, named in the book of Jeremiah, "before the entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes" The royal sealings of wine jars showed it to be Pharaoh's house. It proved rich in painted vases left by the Greek garrison, and gave another fixed point in the history.
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