Anasha

Anascha ( Egyptian Ju-Nescha translated " Hecht herb -Insel") is an ancient Egyptian Toponym which in several papyrus is mentioned. The place is mentioned in the Sobek - Hymn of the Papyrus Ramesseum VI, in the Papyrus Harris I and in the Papyrus Wilbour A and B, whereby the Papyrus Ramesseum from the Middle Kingdom is the oldest evidence. Local deities were Sobek and Hathor , and there is evidence of a temple of Sobek.

In research there has been much speculation about the exact location of the place. Hermann Kees suspected it was in Middle Egypt on the east bank of the Nile between Sheikh Fadl and Es-Siririja, whereas Heinrich Brugsch identified him with the ancient Musua , which is said to have been between Speos Artemidos and Hipponon . Alan H. Gardiner moved it to the west bank near Tehna , Wolfgang Helck sees its location south of Sako near Mataiyeh. Rainer Hannig equates Anascha with the modern settlement Nazlat al-Amudain in the large hand-book Egyptian-German .

literature

Wolfgang Helck : Anascha. In: Wolfgang Helck (Hrsg.): Lexikon der Ägyptologie (LÄ). Volume I, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1975, ISBN 3-447-01670-1 , Sp. 253.

↑ ^a ^b Wolfgang Helck: Anascha. In: Wolfgang Helck (Hrsg.): Lexikon der Ägyptologie (LÄ). Volume I, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1975, ISBN 3-447-01670-1 , Sp. 253.
↑ Hermann Kees: Anubis 'Herr von Sepa' and the 18th Upper Egyptian Gau. In: Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde No. 58. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1923, p. 100, ( online ).
^ Heinrich Brugsch: Dictionnaire géographique de l'ancienne Egypte. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1879-80, pp. 308, 717, 1213, ( online ).
^ Alan H. Gardiner : Ancient Egyptian Onomastica. Vol. II, Oxford University Press, London 1947, p. 95.
^ Rainer Hannig: The language of the pharaohs. Large hand-held Egyptian-German dictionary . (= Cultural History of the Ancient World . Vol. 64) 3rd edition, von Zabern, Mainz 2001, ISBN 3-8053-1771-9 , p. 1300.