Sebennytos

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Sebennytos in hieroglyphics
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Tjeb-netjer
Ṯb-nṯr
City of the Holy Calf

Greek Σεβέννυτος

Sebennytos ( Arabic سمنّود Samannūd , DMG Samannūd , ancient Egyptian Tjeb-netjer ; Coptic Dyebenute ; ancient Greek Σεβέννυτος ; ἡ Σεβεννυτικὴ πόλις hê Sebennytikê Pólis 'the Sebennytic city', Latin Sebennytus ) was an ancient city in Lower Egypt , today on the Damietta arm (in ancient times the Bucolic or Phatnic arm ) of the Nile in the Nile Delta .

topography

Sebennytos (Egypt)
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Location in Egypt

In the past, Sebennytos was also located on the Sebennytian arm of the Nile ( ancient Greek ὁ Σεβεννυτικὸς Νείλος ) running west of it and named after it , which is now silted up , almost between two branches of the Nile. Sebennytos was the capital of the 12th (ancient) district ( νομός nomos ; Egypt. Sepat) of the same name and is located near Sais at almost 31 ° north latitude. In ancient times it was an important place on a peninsula between the Sebennytian Sea ( ἡ λίμνη Σεβεννυτική , today Burlos) and the Nile.

history

The city was an important trading city for Lower Egypt and Memphis . The decline of the canal system due to silting up as a result of deposits made the site less important and almost made it disappear. Sebennytos was the birthplace of Manetho , a historian and chronicler of the Ptolemaic period of the 3rd century BC. BC, known for his "king lists". The last ruler from Egypt, Pharaoh Nectanebos II from the 30th Dynasty , also came from there. There are finds of a temple ruin and other remains from Ptolemaic times. The titular bishopric "Sebennytus" of the Catholic Church has existed since ancient times .

See also

literature

  • Kamal Ahmed Bey: Sébennytos et son temple (= Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Égypte. Volume 7, 1907, pp. 87-94). Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire, Le Caire 1906.
  • Hans Bonnet : Sebennytos. In: Lexicon of Egyptian Religious History. Nikol, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-937872-08-6 , pp. 691f.
  • Olivier Perdu: La Chefferie de Sébennytos de Piânkhy à Psammétique Ier. In: Revue d'Égyptologie. Volume 55, pp. 95-111, Paris 2004, ISSN  0035-1849 , DOI: 10.2143 / RE.55.1.505307 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Claudius Ptolemy , Geographike Hyphegesis 4,5,50; Stephanos of Byzantium : Ethnika sv Sebennytos.
  2. ↑ Strabon , Geographika 17,1,18.
  3. ↑ Jean-François Champollion : L'Égypte sous les pharaons, ou Recherches sur la geographie, la religion, la langue, les écritures et l'histoire de l'Égypte avant l'invasion de Cambyse. Volume II, Bure, Paris 1814, pp. 191 ff.
  4. ^ Bill Manley: The Seventy Great Mysteries of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson, London 2003, ISBN 0-500-05123-2 , p. 101.


Coordinates: 30 ° 58 ′  N , 31 ° 15 ′  E