Bigeh

snmwt^[1]^[2]
in hieroglyphs

Era: Middle Kingdom
(2055–1650 BC)

or

snm(w)t or snm(w)tt^[1]^[2]
in hieroglyphs

Bigeh (

Old Aswan Dam since the dam's initial completion in 1902.^[4]^[5]

Ancient Egypt

It was formerly an island in the

Philae and Agilkia Islands and their ancient archaeological sites in the reservoir.^[6]

Bigeh Island was sacred to the

Lucan.^[11]

The god Thoth bore the epithets of "Great and Splendid God in Bigeh" and "He that Pacifies the Nsr.t in Bigeh".^[12] It is thought that there may have been a temple of Thoth on the island.

In the mid or late 3rd century AD, an embassy from King Talakhidamani of Kush visited the Abaton with gifts.^[13]

Gallery

Bigeh (foreground) and
Nile River.
(1838 painting by David Roberts
).

Bigeh island ruins in 2006 in the
Old Aswan Dam
reservoir.

References

^ ^a ^b Gauthier, Henri (1928). Dictionnaire des Noms Géographiques Contenus dans les Textes Hiéroglyphiques Vol. 5. p. 40.
^ ^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. 1031.
^ Allen, James P. Middle Egyptian Literature 2014, p.12
^ Sidney Peel,The Binding of the Nile and the New Soudan, p.76 (1904)
^ Canay Ozden, The Pontifex Minimus: William Willcocks and Engineering British Colonialism, p. 196, Annals of Science, 2013. DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2013.808378
^ Yale University Publications in Anthropology, Yale University 1936, p.96
^ The Island of Bigeh, www.philae.nu, date unknown, (accessed 17 February 2014 from archive.org)
^ Burton, Anne (1972). Diodorus Siculus. Brill. p. 95
^ Dijkstra, Jitse H. F. (2008). Philae and the End of Ancient Egyptian Religion. Peeters. p. 202.
^ Seneca, Q. N. iv. 2
^ Lucan, x.323
^ Boylan, Patrick (1922). Thoth, Or the Hermes of Egypt. p. 169
^ Josefine Kuckertz (2021), "Meroe and Egypt", in Wolfram Grajetzki, Solange Ashby and Willeke Wendrich (eds.), UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, Los Angeles.

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[Gauthier40-1] Gauthier, Henri (1928). Dictionnaire des Noms Géographiques Contenus dans les Textes Hiéroglyphiques Vol. 5. p. 40.

[Budge1031-2] 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. 1031.

[3] Allen, James P. Middle Egyptian Literature 2014, p.12

[4] Sidney Peel,The Binding of the Nile and the New Soudan, p.76 (1904)

[5] Canay Ozden, The Pontifex Minimus: William Willcocks and Engineering British Colonialism, p. 196, Annals of Science, 2013. DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2013.808378

[6] Yale University Publications in Anthropology, Yale University 1936, p.96

[7] The Island of Bigeh, www.philae.nu, date unknown, (accessed 17 February 2014 from archive.org)

[8] Burton, Anne (1972). Diodorus Siculus. Brill. p. 95

[9] Dijkstra, Jitse H. F. (2008). Philae and the End of Ancient Egyptian Religion. Peeters. p. 202.

[10] Seneca, Q. N. iv. 2

[11] Lucan, x.323

[12] Boylan, Patrick (1922). Thoth, Or the Hermes of Egypt. p. 169

[JK-13] Josefine Kuckertz (2021), "Meroe and Egypt", in Wolfram Grajetzki, Solange Ashby and Willeke Wendrich (eds.), UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, Los Angeles.

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