Shas-hotep
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Schas-hotep š3s-ḥtp |
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Schas-hotep , in proper spelling Schashotep , is the ancient Egyptian name of a city in the 11th district of Upper Egypt . The place is mentioned for the first time in a text from the First Intermediate Period .
In the Middle Kingdom it was the capital of the district. The Greeks called the place Hypselis . In the resort was Khnum , as " Khnum, lord of Shas hotep worshiped". Schas-hotep is to be equated with today's Shutb . No remains of the old city have yet been found. The city's necropolis is located at what is now Rifeh .
Going back to a lost bishopric in the ancient city, Hypselis is now a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church .
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. 250-251.
Remarks
- ↑ Writing after Rainer Hannig
Coordinates: 27 ° 8 ′ 38 ″ N , 31 ° 14 ′ 17 ″ E