Twin City (Ancient Egypt)
The twin cities of Buto and Hierakonpolis - El-Kab are the old and important cities of Upper and Lower Egypt before the unification of the two countries .
Egypt was dominated on the one hand by the desert and on the other by the Nile and the adjacent fruiting land. Every year the Nile overflowed its banks and flooded the fertile land. Settlements were mainly built on hills in the fertile land that were not flooded (while settlements were seldom built in the desert, probably because of the problem of drinking water supplies). On these hills, however, there was usually only limited settlement area, so that when the population grew, a nearby hill was used. The newly created settlement usually received its own name, but formed a close connection with the old one, so that it was practically mostly twin cities.
| Greek name | Buto | |
| Arabic name | Tell el-Fara'un | |
| Egyptian name | Pe | Dep |
| Deity | Horus | Uto |
| West bank | East bank | |
|---|---|---|
| Greek name | Hierakonpolis | Eileithyiaspolis |
| Arabic name | Kôm el Ahmar | Elkab |
| Egyptian name | Nechen | Necheb |
| Deity | Horus | Nechbet |
See also
literature
- Hartwig Altenmüller : Buto. In: Wolfgang Helck , Eberhard Otto, Wolfhart Westendorf: Lexicon of Egyptology. Volume I, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1975, columns 887-889.
- Kurt Sethe : Prehistory and the oldest religion of the Egyptians (= treatises for the knowledge of the Orient. Volume 18: 4). German Oriental Society, Leipzig 1930, page 138f. § 170.
- Kurt Sethe: Contributions to the oldest history of Egypt. (= Studies on the history and antiquity of Egypt. [UGAÄ] Volume 3) Leipzig 1905, p. 16ff.
- Barbara Adams: Hierakonpolis. In: Lexikon der Ägyptologie Volume II, 1977, column 1182 - 1186.
- Herman J. de Meulenaere: Elkab. In: Lexicon of Egyptology. Volume I, 1975, columns 1225-1227.