Girga

Tjeni in hieroglyphics
Tjeni Ṯnj The exalted (place) The exalted (place)
Greek	This (Θίς), Thinis (Θίνις)

Girga ( Arabic جرجا, DMG Ǧirǧā ; Ancient Egyptian Tjeni , Coptic Tin (e) , Greek Θίνις Thinis or Θίς This ) is an Egyptian city, located on the west side of the Nile and with a history that goes back to ancient Egypt .

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Coordinates: 26 ° 20 '  N , 31 ° 53'  E

Girga​

Egypt

The necropolis of the place in the eighth Upper Egyptian Gau ( Thinites ) was on the other side of the Nile near Lepidotonpolis . The graves in the cemetery range from the early dynasty to the Middle Kingdom .

The main god of the city was Onuris , who already owned a temple in the Old Kingdom .

Manetho (Africanus) reports in his Aegyptiaca : “The first king was Menes from This. The second king, Athothis , built the new royal palace near Memphis . The nine kings of the second dynasty came from This ” .

Inscriptions on clay seals show that King ( Pharaoh ) Hetepsechemui , founder of the second dynasty, founded a new residence near This and called it " Hor-chaj-seba " (" Horus , the shining star ").

sons and daughters of the town

• Raphael Tuki (Rufa'il at-Tuhi)

See also

• List of capitals of Egypt

literature

• Wolfgang Helck : Thinis. In: Wolfgang Helck, Eberhard Otto (Hrsg.): Lexikon der Ägyptologie. Volume 6: Stele - Cypress. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1986, ISBN 3-447-02663-4 , pp. 475-486.
• Johannes Renger : Thinis. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 12/1, Metzler, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-476-01482-7 , column 464.
• William Gillian Waddell: Manetho (= The Loeb classical library. Vol. 350). Heinemann et al., London 1940 (Reprinted edition. Harvard University. Press et al., Cambridge MA 2004, ISBN 0-674-99385-3 ).

Web links

Wikivoyage: Girgā  - travel guide

Commons : Girga  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Rainer Hannig : Large Concise Dictionary Egyptian - German. (2800-950 BC). The language of the pharaohs (= Hannig-Lexica. Vol. 1 = Cultural history of the ancient world . Vol. 64). von Zabern, Mainz 2006, ISBN 3-8053-1771-9 , p. 1206.
2. ↑ Christian Leitz u. a .: LGG. Vol. 1. p. 473.
3. ↑ Wolfgang Helck, Eberhard Otto (Ed.): Lexikon der Ägyptologie. Volume 6. 1986, pp. 475-476.
4. ↑ Wolfgang Helck, Eberhard Otto (Ed.): Lexikon der Ägyptologie. Volume 6. 1986, p. 476.
5. ↑ Wolfgang Helck: Investigations on the Thinite Age (= Ägyptologische Abhandlungen. Vol. 45). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1987, ISBN 3-447-02677-4 , pp. 194-195.