Herwer

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Herwer in hieroglyphics
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Herwer (also Herur) was an ancient Egyptian place in the 16th Upper Egyptian Gau ( Ma-hedj ). The place name has been attested since the Old Kingdom . Here Khnum and his companion Heqet were worshiped. A temple of Khnum appears in texts. Herwer is mentioned above all in the graves of the guest princes who were buried in Beni Hasan , but also appears in sources from the New Kingdom . It is not yet possible to identify the location of the place with certainty.

The identification with Antinoë , where there is a Ramessid temple in which "Khnum, Lord of Herwer" is called, which has been suggested in the past , could not be maintained. Heqet, also known as "Mistress of Herwer", is not mentioned in the temple. In contrast, “ Thoth of Hermopolis ” appears much more frequently.

In the Onomasticon of Amenemope and in the Turin Papyrus 118.11, Herwer is referred to as north of Hermopolis, which excludes an identification with Antinoupolis. The place was definitely on the west side of the Nile in the 16th Upper Egyptian Gau, as the inscriptions in Beni Hasan suggest.

literature

  • Farouk Gomaa: The colonization of Egypt during the Middle Kingdom, 1st Upper Egypt and the Fayyum. Reichert, Wiesbaden 1986, ISBN 3-88226-279-6 , pp. 312-315.