Pe-Hor-mesen

Pe-Hor-mesen is an ancient Egyptian royal palace that has been occupied since the 1st dynasty . Her name means seat of the harpooning Horus . It is unclear where exactly this Palatinate was geographically . It probably belonged to the administrative district of the early dynastic Buto , which at that time still consisted of three complexes: the main town "Djebau", the secondary town "Dep" and the royal palace "Pe-Hor-mesen". The Palatinate was one of the most important trading , exchange and transshipment centers in early Egypt.

Name variations

There are various readings and transcriptions of the building name: P3-Ḥr-msn (“Pa-Hor-mesen”), Pj-Ḥr-msn (“Pi-Hor-mesen”) and P-Ḥ-msn (“Pe-Hor -mesen ”), the latter reading being the most commonly used. There are also inscriptions in which the word is entered in a house symbol so that it reads Ḥw.tp-Ḥr-msn ("Hut-pe-Hor-mesen"). Thanks to this spelling, it can be ruled out that Pe-Hor-mesen was a city.

Bibliography

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