Does anyone know what “Tanis” meant?
I don't.
“Tanis”
It’s Greek for BFE...
Zoan:
(Old Egyptian: Sant= “stronghold,” the modern San). A city on the Tanitic branch of the Nile, called by the Greeks Tanis. It was built seven years after Hebron in Palestine (Num. 13:22). This great and important city was the capital of the Hyksos, or Shepherd kings, who ruled Egypt for more than 500 years. It was the frontier town of Goshen. Here Pharaoh was holding his court at the time of his various interviews with Moses and Aaron. “No trace of Zoan exists; Tanis was built over it, and city after city has been built over the ruins of that” (Harper, Bible and Modern Discovery). Extensive mounds of ruins, the wreck of the ancient city, now mark its site (Isa. 19:11, 13; 30:4; Ezek. 30:14). “The whole constitutes one of the grandest and oldest ruins in the world.”
This city was also called “the Field of Zoan” (Ps. 78:12, 43) and “the Town of Rameses” (q.v.), because the oppressor rebuilt and embellished it, probably by the forced labor of the Hebrews, and made it his northern capital.
Wasn’t Tanis the girlfriend goddess of the first movie Mummy?
Tanis was either the Greek or Roman name for the area. In that time it was called Per-Ramses.
"Tanis was actually its Greek name. We are told that its ancient Egyptian name was Djanet." From: http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/tanis.htm
Tanis: Greek from the Phoenician Tanith, meaning "serpent lady"
"In Egyptian, her name means Land of Neith, Neith being a war goddess." More here: Tanit
You are welcome, Neighbor. BTW, I’m certain my dad has a pic of me standing next to fallen chunk of obelisk at Tanis.