Mirgissa
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Iqen Jqn |
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On the former Sudanese west bank of the Nile was the place Mirgissa ( ancient Egyptian Iqen ). In the immediate vicinity was in the Middle Kingdom under Sesostris III. an ancient Egyptian fortress was built to secure the border with Nubia . Since the completion of the Aswan Dam , the former west bank has been flooded by Lake Nubia .
The fortress, about 334 kilometers south of Aswan , was in the area of the second Nile cataract and, with a size of about 4 hectares (40,000 m² ), was the largest of the eleven Nubian border fortresses.
literature
- Rainer Hannig : Large concise dictionary of Egyptian-German (2800–950 BC) (= cultural history of the ancient world . Vol. 64). Marburg Edition, 4th, revised edition. von Zabern, Mainz 2006, ISBN 3-8053-1771-9 , p. 1120.
- Bruce B. Williams: Nubian Forts. In: Kathryn A. Bard, Steven Blake Shubert: Encyclopedia of the archeology of ancient Egypt. Routledge, London et al. 1999, ISBN 0-415-18589-0 , pp. 574-579.
Coordinates: 21 ° 49 ′ N , 31 ° 10 ′ E