TELL DAFANA

Modern name for a site on the eastern edge of the Delta of Lower Egypt. The remains date from Dynasty 26 to the Graeco-Roman Period. It is likely to be identified with the ancient Daphnae mentioned by Herodotus as a garrison town founded during the Saite Period to guard the frontier routes from the Sinai. Tell Dafna was excavated by Flinders Petrie in 1886.