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Akhmim (
Ancient Greek: Πανὸς πόλις[4] and Πανόπολις[5]), it is located on the east bank of the Nile, four miles (6.4 km) to the northeast of Sohag
.
History
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| jp or jpw[1][6] in hieroglyphs | |||||
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| Era: New Kingdom (1550–1069 BC) | |||||
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| ḫn(t) mnw[3] in hieroglyphs | |||||
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| Era: New Kingdom (1550–1069 BC) | |||||
Akhmim was known in
Brugsch the name is related to the nearby village of Kafr Abou)[7] or Khent-min. It was the capital of the ninth (Chemmite) nome of Upper Egypt
.
The city is a suggested hometown for
Tuthmosis IV and Amenhotep III
.
The ithyphallic
Pan) was worshipped here as "the strong Horus." Herodotus mentions the temple dedicated to Perseus and asserts that Chemmis was remarkable for being the hero’s birthplace, wherein celebrations and games were held in his honour after the manner of the Greeks; at which prizes were given. As a matter of fact, some representations are known of Nubians and people of Punt (southern coastal Sudan and the Eritrean
coast) climbing up poles before the god Min.
Min was especially a god of the desert routes on the east of
In the
Book of Henoch, of the Gospel, and of the Apocalypse of Peter, the Acts of the Council of Ephesus, as well as numerous other Christian
inscriptions.
In the 13th century AD, a very imposing temple still stood in Akhmim.[8] Today, little of its past glory remains. Nothing is left of the town, the temples were almost completely dismantled, and their material reused in the later Middle Ages. The extensive cemeteries of ancient Akhmim are yet to be fully explored. The destroyed corner of a Greco-Roman period temple with colossal statues of Ramesses II and Meritamen was discovered in 1981.
Climate
hot desert
(BWh).
| Climate data for Akhmim | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 22.1 (71.8) |
24 (75) |
27.9 (82.2) |
33 (91) |
36.1 (97.0) |
37.9 (100.2) |
37.2 (99.0) |
37.4 (99.3) |
34.2 (93.6) |
31.9 (89.4) |
28.4 (83.1) |
23.4 (74.1) |
31.1 (88.0) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 13.6 (56.5) |
15.1 (59.2) |
18.5 (65.3) |
23.4 (74.1) |
27 (81) |
29.2 (84.6) |
28.9 (84.0) |
29.3 (84.7) |
27.2 (81.0) |
24.9 (76.8) |
20.3 (68.5) |
15.2 (59.4) |
22.7 (72.9) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 5.2 (41.4) |
6.2 (43.2) |
9.2 (48.6) |
13.8 (56.8) |
18 (64) |
20.5 (68.9) |
20.7 (69.3) |
21.3 (70.3) |
20.2 (68.4) |
17.9 (64.2) |
12.3 (54.1) |
7.1 (44.8) |
14.4 (57.8) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
| Source: Climate-Data.org[11] | |||||||||||||
Modern city
Akhmim is the largest town on the east side of the
Coptic churches. The Monastery of the Martyrs is located about 6 km northeast of the city. Akhmim maintains a weekly market, and manufactures cotton goods, notably the blue shirts and check shawls with silk fringes worn by the poorer classes of Egypt. Outside the walls are the scanty ruins of two ancient temples. On the west bank of the Nile opposite of Akhmim, there is railway communication with Cairo and Aswan
.
Notable people
- Nakhtmin, 13th Dynasty priest
- Tjuyu, parents of Queen Tiye, Anen and possibly Pharaoh Ay
- Tiye (c. 1398 BC – 1338 BC), Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III
- Anen, Second Prophet of Amun and brother of Queen Tiye
- Ay, Pharaoh from 1323 to 1319 BC or 1327–1323 BC
- Nakhtmin, general, appointed heir of Ay
- Sennedjem, official under Tutankhamun
- Amenemope, author of Instructions of Amenemope
- Nefrina, woman who died in 275 BCE, her mummy is in the Reading Public Museum, Pennsylvania
- alchemist
- Tryphiodorus, 3rd/4th century epic poet
- Cyrus of Panopolis, (Flavius Taurus Seleucus Cyrus; fl. 426–441) East Roman official, philosopher, poet
- Pamprepius (440–484) philosopher, poet, rebel against Emperor Zeno
- Abib and Apollo, 4th century martyrs
- Nonnus, 5th century poet
- Veronica of Syria, 8th century nun, martyr
- Dhul-Nun al-Misri, 9th century Sufi saint
- Muhammed ibn Umail al-Tamimi(900–960) alchemist
- Bahram al-Armani Fatimid vizier (1135–1137) was exiled here
- Al-Nuwayri (1279–1333) Arab historian, encyclopedist
- Yousab El Abah (1735–1826), bishop of Akhmim, theologian, saint
- Maximos Sedfaoui (1863–1925), Apostolic Administrator of the Coptic Catholic Church
- Markos II Khouzam (1888–1958), Patriarch of Alexandria (1947–1958)
See also
- List of cities and towns in Egypt
- Berlin Codex
- el-Hawawish
- el-Salamuni
References
- ^ a b Wallis Budge, E. A. (1920). An Egyptian hieroglyphic dictionary: with an index of English words, king list and geological list with indexes, list of hieroglyphic characters, coptic and semitic alphabets, etc. Vol II. John Murray. p. 956.
- ^ a b "Akhmīm (Markaz, Egypt) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location". citypopulation.de. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
- ^ a b Gauthier, Henri (1927). Dictionnaire des Noms Géographiques Contenus dans les Textes Hiéroglyphiques Vol. 4. p. 177.
- ^ "Panopolis (Akhmim)". Trismegistos. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
- ^ Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Chemmis
- ^ Gauthier, Henri (1925). Dictionnaire des Noms Géographiques Contenus dans les Textes Hiéroglyphiques Vol. 1. p. 67.
- ^ Brugsch, Heinrich (1879). Dictionnaire géographique de l'ancienne Egypte: contenant par ordre alphabétique la nomenclature comparée des noms propres géographiques qui se rencontrent sur les monuments et dans les papyrus. J. C. Heinrichs. p. 575.
- ^ a b c One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Griffith, Francis Llewellyn (1911). "Akhmim". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 456.
- ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 949
- ^ Oriens christianus, II, 601–4
- ^ "Climate: Akhmim - Climate graph, Temperature graph, Climate table". Climate-Data.org. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
Further reading
- Henri, Leclercq (1907). . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- Falling Rain Genomics, Inc. "Geographical information on Akhmim, Egypt". Archived from the original on 27 March 2008. Retrieved 3 May 2008.
External links
- More about Akmim's Martyrs - Saint Takla Haymanout Church, Egypt
- References to Akhmim in Coptic Literature - Coptic Scriptorium database
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