Hebenu
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Hebenu Ḥbnw |
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Hebenu was an ancient Egyptian city in Middle Egypt, in the 16th Upper Egyptian antelope gau Ma-hedj . The place could not be precisely located so far, but was near Neferusi .
As one can deduce from the grave inscriptions of the Gau princes buried near Zawiyat al-Amwat , Hebenu was the capital of the Antelope Valley in the Old Kingdom . In this function she is also mentioned on the Gauliste of Sesostris I in Karnak . The place is mentioned several times in the Middle Kingdom , but was no longer the main town of the Gau. He is tentatively located at Zawiyat al-Amwat. The main god of the city was Horus , Lord of Hebenu .
literature
- Hans Bonnet : Hebenu. In: Lexicon of Egyptian Religious History. Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-937872-08-6 , p. 284.
- Farouk Gomaa: The colonization of Egypt during the Middle Kingdom, 1st Upper Egypt and the Fayyum. Wiesbaden 1986, ISBN 3-88226-279-6 , pp. 319-321.
- Rainer Hannig : Large Concise Dictionary Egyptian-German: (2800-950 BC) . von Zabern, Mainz 2006, ISBN 3-8053-1771-9 , p. 1172.
Coordinates: 28 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ N , 30 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ E