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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 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 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 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.
Nome (Egypt), an administrative division within ancient Egypt; Nome (Greece), the administrative division immediately below the peripheries of Greece (Greek: νομός, romanized: nomós, pl. Greek: νομοί, romanized: nomoí)
The Nomes of Lower Egypt. The "prospering scepter" in hieroglyphs. The Heliopolite, or Thirteenth Nome (Egyptian: ḥqꜣ-ꜥḏ, lit. "Prospering Scepter"), was a nome (province or district) of ancient Egypt. Its capital was Iunu, which was the Heliopolis of the Ptolemaic era and the modern Ayn Shams (a suburb of Cairo).
Nekhen was the name of the third Upper Egyptian nome (province). Nekhen is also the Egyptian name of Hierakonpolis , one of the main towns in the province. During the Ptolemaic Greek and Roman eras, the province was called Latopolites , for Esna was in this period the main town and its Greek name was Latopolis or Letopolis .