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A nome (/ n oʊ m /, [1] from Ancient Greek: νομός, nomós, "district") was a territorial division in ancient Egypt. [2] Each nome was ruled by a nomarch (Ancient Egyptian: ḥrj tp ꜥꜣ, "Great Chief"). [3] The number of nomes changed through the various periods of the history of ancient Egypt. [4]
The Hare nome, also called the Hermopolite nome (Ancient Egyptian: wnt "Cape hare") was one of the 42 nomoi (administrative divisions) in ancient Egypt; more precisely, it was the 15th nome of Upper Egypt. [2] The Hare nome's main city was Khemenu (later Hermopolis Magna, and the modern el-Ashmunein) in Middle Egypt. The local main deity was ...
The name is presumed to have been derived from the large presence of Arabs living in the region [4] [1] although Arabs are noted to have been living elsewhere in Egypt, especially the eastern deserts along the Red Sea coast, in the Fayyum region (Arsinoite Nome) [4] [2] where a city Ptolemais Arabon (Ptolemais of Arabs) was named after them, [4 ...
The Oryx nome (Ancient Egyptian: 𓉇 Ma-hedj) was one of the 42 nomoi (administrative divisions, Egyptian: sepat) in ancient Egypt. The Oryx nome was the 16th nome of Upper Egypt, [1] and was named after the scimitar oryx (a type of antelope). It was located, approximately, in the territories surrounding the modern city of Minya in Middle Egypt.
King Sahure (right) with the deified nome of Harawî (left) Harawî (also Herui) was a designated nome in the area around Coptos in Upper Egypt. Harawî was once politically important, but during the 11th Dynasty, it was overshadowed by Thebes in the nome of Waset. Another important town in the nome was Ombos, the main cult place of the deity Seth.
Tanis is unattested before the 19th Dynasty of Egypt, when it was the capital of the 14th nome of Lower Egypt. [9] [a] A temple inscription datable to the reign of Ramesses II mentions a "Field of Tanis", while the city in se is securely attested in two 20th Dynasty documents: the Onomasticon of Amenope and the Story of Wenamun, as the home place of the pharaoh-to-be Smendes.
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Arsinoe was the capital of the Heroopolite nome, and one of the principal harbors belonging to Egypt. It appears to have been also denominated Cleopatris (Strabo p. 780) and Arsinoites (Plin. v. 9. § 9; Orelli, Inscr. 516). It is also conjectured to have stood on the site of the biblical Pi-hahiroth (Pihachiroth).