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When Gustaf Dalman (1902 - 1917 first director of the German Protestant Institute of Antiquities of the Holy Land in Jerusalem) was in Petra, Bedouins told him the following legend:
In Qasr al-Bint lived the daughter of the Pharaoh, who was said to have hidden a treasure in the urn of Al-Khazneh (Treasury). She told her two admirers that she would marry the one who would be able to bring water from Ain Braq (south of Petra) or from Jabal Harun (Mount Aaron) to her castle. One of the men went to Jabal Harun, the other to Ain Braq, and both succeeded in the task. The one from Jabal Harun said, "The water came by my power and the force of my men," whereas the one from Ain Braq declared, "It succeeded by my effort and the power of God." It occured then that the pipeline from Jabal Harun burst, and the Pharaoh's daughter married the more humble and God-fearing man, who had brought the water from Ain Braq. In fact, there existed a water pipe from the Ain Braq spring through the upper Wadi Farasa to the ancient center of Petra.
Gustaf Dalman: Neue Petra-Forschungen und der Heilige Felsen von Jerusalem, Bd. II, Leipzig 1912, p. 16