Diospolis Parva

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Diospolis parva (also Diospolis mikra "Small Zeus City"; Egyptian Ḥw.t or Ḥw.t-sḫm; Arabic ﮪﻭ "Hu") was an ancient city in Upper Egypt and the capital of the 7th Upper Egyptian Gau. The Egyptian name Ḥw.t-sḫm has been used since the Middle Kingdom , the short form Ḥw.t since the 18th dynasty .

William Matthew Flinders Petrie carried out excavations at Diospolis Parva from 1898 to 1899 and found evidence from the predynastic to the Roman period. The material from the predynastic cemeteries of Abadijeh and Hu formed the basis for its relative chronology of the pre-dynastic time of Egypt (Negade I-III). Kathryn A. Bard undertook subsequent excavations at Diospolis Parva from 1989–1991 at the pre-dynastic sites.

In Diospolis Parva, the god Bat was worshiped, who was later assimilated by the goddess Hathor . There was also a cult for the city ​​god Neferhotep . Later the god Amun was especially venerated, which is why the Greeks named the city Diospolis, since Amun was equated with the god Zeus . A demotic archive of goose shepherds belonging to the temple from the early 27th Dynasty (497–485 BC) provides information on economic aspects of the Amun temple . At Diospolis Parva there is a late animal cemetery and the remains of the temple of Ptolemy VI. and Nerva .

Nag Hammadi, known for the Coptic codices found there, is located northwest of Diospolis Parva .

literature

  • Kathryn A. Bard: Preliminary Report. The 1991 Boston University Excavations at Halfiah Gibli and Semaineh, Upper Egypt . In: Newsletter of the American Research Center in Egypt 158/159 (1992), pp. 11-15.
  • Kathryn A. Bard, Sally Swain: Hu / Hiw (Diospolis Parva). In: Kathryn A. Bard (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the Archeology of Ancient Egypt. Routledge, London 1999, ISBN 0-415-18589-0 , pp. 374-77.
  • Kurt Sethe : Diospolis 7 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume V, 1, Stuttgart 1903, column 1145.
  • WM Flinders Petrie: Diospolis Parva. The cemeteries of Abadiyeh and Hu, 1898-9 . London 1901.
  • Sven P. Vleeming: The Gooseherds of Hou (Pap. Hou). A Dossier relating to Various Agricultural Affairs from Provincial Egypt of the Early Fifth Century BC Leuven 1991 (Studia Demotica 3).
  • Karola Zibelius: Hu . In: Lexikon der Ägyptologie III (1980), Col. 64.

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Coordinates: 26 ° 1 '  N , 32 ° 17'  E