Mendes
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Mendes (Μένδης) is the Greek name of the ancient Egyptian city Djedet (now Arabic تل الربع Tall al-Rubˁ ) in the eastern Nile Delta .
history
It was the capital of the 16th Gaus ( Hatmehit -Gau) of Lower Egypt and the capital of Ancient Egypt during the 29th Dynasty . The city was on the "Mendesian arm of the Nile", which is now muddy, about 35 kilometers east of Mansura .
Today the site is one of the largest archaeological sites in the Nile Delta and consists of Tell al-Rubˁ with the remains of the main temple and the Egyptian settlement and Tell Timai in the south, where the Greco-Roman settlement Thmuis was located. Mendes has an approximate north-south extension of three kilometers and extends about 900 meters from east to west.
The former main god of Mendes in ancient Egypt was the ram god Ba-neb-djedet . In the third interim period , the Egyptians regarded Hatmehit as his wife, who with their son Hor-pa-chered formed the trinity of Mendes.
literature
- Hans Bonnet : Mendes. In: Lexikon der Ägyptischen Religionsgeschichte , Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-937872-08-6 , p. 451.
- Donald Hansen: Mendes, Dynastic evidence. In: Kathryn A. Bard (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the Archeology of Ancient Egypt. Routledge, London 1999, ISBN 0-415-18589-0 , pp. 497-98.
- Wolfgang Helck / Eberhard Otto : Mendes. In: Small Lexicon of Egyptology. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-447-04027-0 , p. 186.
- Christian Leitz u. a .: Lexicon of the Egyptian gods and names of gods . Peeters, Leuven 2002, ISBN 90-429-1147-6 , p. 710.
- Robert J. Wenke: Mendes, Predynastic and Early Dynastic. In: Kathryn A. Bard (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the Archeology of Ancient Egypt. Routledge, London 1999, ISBN 0-415-18589-0 , pp. 499-501.
Web links
- The Great Mendes Stela. (The large stele of Mendes) (English) On: reshafim.org.il from 2003 (after S. Birch, after a German translation by Brugsch-Bey, 1875 Records of the Past. Series 1, Volume 8); last accessed on December 9, 2016.
Coordinates: 30 ° 57 ' N , 31 ° 31' E