Sheikh Fadl

Sheikh Fadl

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Sheikh Fadl ( Arabic الشيخ فضل, DMG aš-Šaiḫ Faḍl ) is a village in Middle Egypt ( Egypt ) in the governorate of al-Minya on the east bank of the Nile across from Bani Mazar .

The cemetery

4 km east and northeast of the village is a Ptolemaic cemetery consisting of rock graves . This also belonged to the ancient city of Kynopolis , the capital of the 17th Upper Egyptian district and the cult site of the dog-headed god Anubis , the exact location of which is so far unknown.

Most of the graves were looted. Finds from some graves that were excavated by the Egyptian Antiquities Administration are now in the Antiquities Museum in Mallawi . In the north of the cemetery there are underground galleries in which dog mummies were buried. The previously little explored animal galleries are now in a poor structural condition.

WM Flinders Petrie discovered a grave in the cemetery, the walls of which were provided with several columns in Aramaic script . The difficult to decipher, in the 5th century BC. Text to be dated forms a coherent narrative. The story itself takes place at the time of the New Assyrian Empire and names u. a. a certain Inaros , who is also known from demotic stories. Therefore it is probably the Aramaic translation of the Egyptian narrative.

literature

Farouk Gomaà: Scheich el-Fadl In: Helck, Wolfgang , Otto, Eberhard , Westendorf, Wolfhart (ed.): Lexicon of Egyptology. (LÄ) Vol. V: Building a pyramid - stone vessels. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1984, ISBN 978-3-447-02489-1 , column 555-556.
Farouk Gomaà, Renate Müller-Wollermann, Wolfgang Schenkel: Middle Egypt between Samalut and the Gabal Abu Sir. Contributions to the historical topography of the Pharaonic era (= supplements to the Tübingen Atlas of the Middle East. Series B, Geisteswissenschaften. Vol. 69). Reichert, Wiesbaden 1991, ISBN 978-3-88226-467-8 .
Farouk Gomaà: coffins and other finds from the necropolis of the falcon city. In: Communications from the German Archaeological Institute, Cairo Department. (MDAIK) Vol. 57, 2001, pp. 35-57.
André Lemaire: Les inscriptions araméenes de Cheikh-Fadl (Egypte). In: M. Geller, JC Greenfield, MP Weitzman (eds.): Studia Aramaica. New Sources and New Approaches. Papers Delivered at the London Conference of the Institute of Jewish Studies, University College, London, 26th-28th June 1991 (= Journal of Semitic Studies. Supplement 4, 1995). Pp. 77-132.

Individual evidence

^ Noël Giron (Aimé-Giron): Note sur une tombe découverte près de Cheikh-fadl par M. Flinders Petrie et contenant des inscriptions araméenes. In: Ancient Egypt. No. 8, 1923, pp. 38-43.
^ André Lemaire: Les inscriptions araméenes de Cheikh-Fadl (Egypte). 1995, pp. 77-132.
↑ Kim SB Ryholt: The Assyrian invasion of Egypt in Egyptian literary tradition. A survey of the narrative source material. In: Mogens Trolle Larsen, Jan Gerrit Dercksen (Ed.): Assyria and beyond: Studies presented to Mogens Trolle Larsen. Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, Leiden 2004, ISBN 978-90-6258-311-9 , pp. 483-510.
↑ Joachim Friedrich Quack: On the chronology of demotic wisdom literature. In: Kim Ryholt (Ed.): Acts of the seventh international conference of demotic studies. copenhagen, 23-27 august 1999 (= CNI Publications. No. 27). Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Near Eastern Studies - University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2002, ISBN 978-87-7289-648-9 , p. 341 note 78.

[1] Noël Giron (Aimé-Giron): Note sur une tombe découverte près de Cheikh-fadl par M. Flinders Petrie et contenant des inscriptions araméenes. In: Ancient Egypt. No. 8, 1923, pp. 38-43.

[2] André Lemaire: Les inscriptions araméenes de Cheikh-Fadl (Egypte). 1995, pp. 77-132.

[3] Kim SB Ryholt: The Assyrian invasion of Egypt in Egyptian literary tradition. A survey of the narrative source material. In: Mogens Trolle Larsen, Jan Gerrit Dercksen (Ed.): Assyria and beyond: Studies presented to Mogens Trolle Larsen. Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, Leiden 2004, ISBN 978-90-6258-311-9 , pp. 483-510.

[4] Joachim Friedrich Quack: On the chronology of demotic wisdom literature. In: Kim Ryholt (Ed.): Acts of the seventh international conference of demotic studies. copenhagen, 23-27 august 1999 (= CNI Publications. No. 27). Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Near Eastern Studies - University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2002, ISBN 978-87-7289-648-9 , p. 341 note 78.