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planted guards against the Syrians, as he also did at Elephantine 

 against the Ethiopians and at Marea against the Libyans 1 . 



FIG. 72. Libyan woman on horseback. 



The guards planted at Daphnae were the Ionian and 

 Carian mercenaries by whose aid he had seized the throne 2 . 



1 Flinders Petrie, Tarn's, Part n., Nebesheh (Am), and Defenneh (Tahpanhes), 

 pp. 47 sqq. ; cf. Herod, n. 107. 



2 Herod, n. 154. 



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