Doppelzeptergau
| Wabui in hieroglyphics | ||||
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Wabui Wȝb.wj Doppelzeptergau |
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The Doppelzeptergau ( ancient Egyptian Wabui ) was the 19th Upper Egyptian Gau . It extended south of Beni Suef to not far south of Oxyrhynchos on the west side of the Nile and had a length of about 45.7 kilometers.
A first mention as a Gau can be found in the Old Kingdom at Sahure . In the Gauliste of the Sesostris kiosk , the cities Wenesi and Iaq, which cannot be localized, are named as main places. It is no longer run as an independent district in the New Kingdom . In the Saïten period it reappears with the capital Oxyrhynchos and is therefore called Oxyrhynchites in Greco-Roman times .
literature
- Wolfgang Helck : Gaue. In: Wolfgang Helck (Hrsg.): Lexikon der Ägyptologie (LÄ). Volume II, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1977, ISBN 3-447-01876-3 , Sp. 392.