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Upper Egypt nomes Middle Egypt nomes. Upper Egypt was divided into 22 nomes. The first of these was centered on Elephantine close to Egypt's border with Nubia at the First Cataract – the area of modern-day Aswan. From there the numbering progressed downriver in an orderly fashion along the narrow fertile strip of land that was the Nile valley.
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Nome 9: Minu (Min) Nome 10: Cobra; Nome 11: The Set animal (Seth) Nome 12: Viper mountain; Nome 13: Upper pomegranate tree (Upper Sycamore and Viper) Nome 14: Lower pomegranate tree (Lower Sycamore and Viper) Nome 15: Hare; Nome 16: Oryx; Nome 17: The black dog (Jackal) Nome 18: Falcon with spread wings (Nemty) Nome 19: The pure sceptre (Two ...
Ta-Seti (Ancient Egyptian: tꜣ-sty, likely meaning "Land of the Bow") was the first nome (administrative division) of Upper Egypt. [1] Situated at the southern border with Nubia, Ta-Seti played a crucial role in trade, military operations, and cultural exchange between Egypt and Nubia. The term "Ta-Seti" could also broadly refer to the Nubian ...
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.
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 ...
Memphis (Arabic: مَنْف, romanized: Manf, pronounced; Bohairic Coptic: ⲙⲉⲙϥⲓ; Greek: Μέμφις), or Men-nefer, was the ancient capital of Inebu-hedj, the first nome of Lower Egypt that was known as mḥw ("North"). [3]
Objects from the tomb of Djehutynakht, a nomarch during the Middle Kingdom era of Egypt. The city was the capital of the Hare nome (the fifteenth nome of Upper Egypt) in the Heptanomis. Hermopolis stood on the borders of Upper and Lower Egypt, and, for many ages, the Thebaid or upper country extended much further to the north than in more ...