Hatnub
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Hut-nebu (Hatnub) Ḥw.t-nbw House of Gold |
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Hatnub (Egyptian Hw.t-nbw House of Gold ) is the name of ancient alabaster quarries in the eastern desert about 18 km southeast of Tell el-Amarna and about 65 km southeast of the modern city of al-Minya .
history
Hieroglyphic inscriptions and graffiti prove that the quarries were in operation from the reign of Cheops ( 4th dynasty ) until the Roman period . The Egyptian official Weni reports in an autobiographical inscription in his grave in Abydos how he undertook expeditions under Merenre ( 6th Dynasty ) to the quarries of Hatnub, among other places, in order to procure building material for the pyramid of the Pharaoh.
literature
- Georg Möller , Rudolf Anthes : The rock inscriptions from Hatnub, based on the photographs of Georg Möller (= investigations into the history and antiquity of Egypt ... Vol. 9). Hinrichs, Leipzig 1928.
- GW Fraser: Hat-Nub. In: Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archeology. No. 16, 1894, pp. 73-82.
- Ian Shaw: A survey at Hatnub. In: Barry John Kemp (Ed.) Et al .: Amarna reports. / III (= Occasional publications - Egypt Exploration Society. Vol. 4). The Egypt Exploration Society, London 1986, ISBN 978-0-85698-101-2 , pp. 189-212.
- Ian Shaw: Hatnub. In: Kathryn A. Bard (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the Archeology of Ancient Egypt. Routledge, London 1999, ISBN 0-415-18589-0 , pp. 363-65.
Web links
- The Hatnub Quarries presented by Su Bayfield
- trismegistos.org: Alabastron Polis - Hebenou (Kom el-Ahmar) / variant u. a. Hatnub (accessed November 29, 2014)
Coordinates: 27 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ N , 31 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ E