Wadj-who

Wadj-wer has been used as an ancient Egyptian name for seas , inland waters that were either in or outside of Egypt since the 5th Dynasty . In addition, the expression “wadj” referred to the colors green and blue. What the phrase "islands of the great green", used especially during the 12th dynasty, refers to depends on the context of the text.

The variant "Islands in the middle of the great green" used since the New Kingdom meant mainly the Mediterranean Sea and possibly the Aegean Islands, but very rarely other locations. In connection with Keftiu only the kings ( pharaohs ) used Thutmose III. as well as Amenophis II. and Ramses II. the addition “People of Keftiu, islands in the middle of the great green”. Joachim Friedrich Quack was able to prove in this context that the term “wadj-who” was mostly used to denote the extreme northern border of the Egyptian sphere of influence.

literature

Eric H. Cline: The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze age Aegean (c. 3000-1000 BC) . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, ISBN 978-0-1953-6550-4 , pp. 822-823.
Rainer Hannig : Large concise dictionary of Egyptian-German (2800-950 BC) - The language of the pharaohs - . von Zabern, Mainz 2006, ISBN 3-8053-1771-9 , p. 191.
Joachim Friedrich Quack: On the question of the sea in Egyptian texts In: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung (97) . 2002, pp. 453-463.

Individual evidence

↑ Fayumsee and other lakes on the Egyptian Nile Delta coast .

[1] Fayumsee and other lakes on the Egyptian Nile Delta coast .