Armant, Egypt
Armant
ⲉⲣⲙⲟⲛⲧ ⲣ̄ⲙⲟⲛⲧ أرْمَنْت | |
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Armant (
The ruined Temple of Hermonthis (sometimes Temple of Monthu) sits in the middle of the modern town.
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jwnw mnṯ(t)[1][2] in hieroglyphs | |||||
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jwnw šmꜥ(t)[2][1] in hieroglyphs | |||||||||
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Late Period (664–332 BC) | |||||||||
History
The Ancient Egyptian name for the city meant "the Heliopolis of Montu", an Egyptian god whose root of name means "nomad".[3][4] Montu was associated with raging bulls, strength and war. He was also said to manifest himself in a white bull with a black face, which was referred to as the Bakha. Egypt's greatest general-kings called themselves Mighty Bulls, the sons of Montu.[5] In the famous narrative of the Battle of Kadesh, Ramesses II was said to have seen the enemy and "raged at them like Montu, Lord of Thebes".[6]
A temple dedicated to Montu existed at Hermonthis as early as the
Two gates, one of them built by Antoninus Pius, have also been found. The Bucheum, the burial place of the sacred Buchis bulls of Hermonthis, is on the desert edge north of the city. The earliest bull burial dates to Nectanebo II, and the complex remained in use until the mid 4th century AD. The burial place of the Mother of Buchis cows has also been located. Extensive cemeteries of all periods are found in the neighbourhood of Hermonthis.
Under Cleopatra VII, Hermonthis became the capital of the 4th Upper Egyptian nome. The city remained in use during the
See also
References
- ^ a b Gauthier, Henri (1925). Dictionnaire des Noms Géographiques Contenus dans les Textes Hiéroglyphiques Vol. 1. pp. 54–55.
- ^ 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. 958.
- ^ 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 I. John Murray. p. 306.
- ISBN 9781892941688.
- ISBN 978-0472088331.
- ^ "Egyptian Accounts of the Battle of Kadesh". www.reshafim.org.il. Archived from the original on 2011-12-01.