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		Upper Egypt - Nome 4 - The Sceptre
		Upper Egypt - Nome 1 - To Khentit "The Frontier"
		Upper Egypt - Nome 3 - the Shrine
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	Nome
		From Temple of Horus and Sobek, Kom Ombo, Egypt.
		Still, administrative and cultic changes caused the establishment of few new nomes, as was the case with Xois and Bubastis, which were not among the original ones.
		A nome was administered by a nomarch, a governor.
	i-cias.com /e.o/nome.htm (354 words)

	Ancient Egypt
		Egypt was also attractive to invading armies, soldiers of which often settled in the conquered land and married Egyptian women.
		The main crops of Ancient Egypt were wheat and barley, as well as lettuce, beans, onions, figs, dates, grapes, melons and cucumbers.
		The legitimacy of the king was substantiated through myths in which the institution of kingship was established by the gods: The king was defined as the son of Osiris, and often represented as Horus in the shape of a human being.
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	PHARAONIC ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM OF EARLY DYNASTIC/OLD KINGDOM
		Following the unification of Egypt the center of government was usually located in the new capital Memphis where the king and his chief advisers had their institutional homes.
		However, in the early periods it is probable that the king and his household conducted frequent tours of the provinces of Egypt to enhance the perception of the immediacy of power and the involvement of the divine king in the affairs of all his subjects.
		In fact the administration of Egypt comprised a well-integrated combination of governmental institutions with their officials (the royal household and administrators) on one hand, and religious foundations supported by the state on the other hand.
	www.unm.edu /~gbawden/328-egadm/328-egadm.htm (1520 words)

	nome - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Nome is a city located on the southern Seward Peninsula coast of Norton Sound in the Nome Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska.
		A nome (Greek: district) is a subnational administrative division of Ancient Egypt.
		Nome is located on the south coast of the Seward Peninsula facing Norton Sound, part of the Bering Sea.
	encarta.msn.com /nome.html (233 words)

	Ancient Egypt Weblog: The Nomes of Egypt and Astronomy - E - Lower Egypt Nomes Explained - ANE BC P8
		The Nomes of Egypt and Astronomy - C - Nome Hierog...
		The Nomes of Egypt and Astronomy - B - Map of Egyp...
		The Nomes of Egypt and Astronomy - A - Identificat...
	ancientegyptweblog.blogspot.com /2004/05/nomes-of-egypt-and-astronomy-e-lower.htm (1401 words)

	THE ARMY IN ANCIENT EGYPT
		Egypt's reputation was to be re-established to its former exalted heights, with the next series of pharaohs and was to last for approximately 183 years.
		The Hyksos were already masters of mobile warfare with the advent of the horse drawn chariot, a formidable fighting machine, which the Egyptians had no answer to until they introduced their own version of the war chariot at the beginning of the 18th dynasty (c.1550-1295 BC).
		Egypt's natural borders, the Western Desert, the Sinai Desert, the Mediterranean coast and the First Cataract at Aswan have defended Egypt since the beginning of time.
	www.egyptologyonline.com /the_army_in_ancient_egypt.htm (2274 words)

	The Principal Geographical And Mythological Places In The Book Of The Dead.
		Abtu, the Abydos of the Greeks (Strabo, XVII., i., 42), the capital of the eighth nome of Upper Egypt.
		Het-Ptah-ka, the sacred name of the city of Memphis, the metropolis of the first nome of Lower Egypt; it means the "House of the ka of Ptah," and was probably in use in the period of the Ist dynasty.
		Sekhem, the Letopolis of the Greeks, and capital of the Letopolites nome (Strabo, XVII., i., 30); it was the seat of the worship of Heru-ur, "Horus the elder," and one of the most important religious centres in Egypt.
	www.earth-history.com /Egypt/Bodead/bodead-11-places.htm (1378 words)

	The Nomes of Egypt - WM Flinders Petrie
		The nome lists which we have for study are mostly of a late period; but the lists of cities where ceremonies took place, or where the fourteen or sixteen parts of Osiris were deposited, shew us what were the principal centres et a very early date.
		The Egyptian form is the name of the nome; and the Greek is the name of the capital, from which that of the nome was later formed, except in three cases.
		Hap is the town in the xvith nome (de R. 113) rather than Hap of the south or north in the ivth or vth nome.
	www.coinsofromanegypt.org /html/library/petrie/petrie_nomes.htm (3882 words)

	Egyptian Glossary
		Later she is represented as a woman with the head of a cow, and finally with a human head, the face broad and placid, sometimes she is depicted with the ears or horns of a cow.
		This was the crown of Upper Egypt (southern).
		She is portraied as a woman wearing a vulture headdress, with the double crown(Pshent) of upper and lower Egypt.
	www.egyptartsite.com /glossary.html (5374 words)

	The Nomes (Proviences) of Ancient Egypt
		The term nome is actually of Greek origin (nomos) used to refer to the forty two traditional provinces of ancient Egypt.
		The number of provinces in Upper Egypt seems to have been constant from the Old Kingdom onwards, whereas the number and position of the provinces in Lower Egypt varied, growing over time as marshes were converted to cultivated land and as the river branches of the Nile Delta shifted over the centuries.
		Upper Egyptian nomes were also usually represented in the form of a standard, thus leading to provinces being described by such names as the "hare nome" or the "ibis nome".
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/nomes.htm (773 words)

	EGYPT
		The fact that Egypt existed in such isolation meant that the godhood of the Pharaoh went unchallenged for more than five hundred years, until intercourse with other cultures demonstrated that the Pharaoh was simply one king among many.
		Egypt was a land of many gods, but since the capital was located at Thebes, Amon-Ra, the god of Thebes had risen to a position of pre-eminence.
		Ikhnaton had hoped to govern Egypt with an idealistic vision that was great and noble enough to to conquer the minds and hearts of other nations, rather than their armies.
	www.worldhistory1a.homestead.com /EGYPT.html (6970 words)

	Nomes, Provinces of Ancient Egypt
		On temples in ancient Egypt these sepats were shown in relief running along the bottom of walls, as androgynous deities, with the ensign on top of their heads.
		The sepats of Upper Egypt was normally shown on the southern temple walls while the Lower Egypt sepats were depicted on the northern walls.
		Fragment of a sistrum invoking Atum and Horus Sematawy.
	www.philae.nu /akhet/Nomes.html (916 words)

	The Nomes of Lower Egypt
		Lower Egypt´s landscape is dominated by the Nile delta, a fertile marshy area scored by tributaries and canals.
		Lower Egypt was known as Ta-Mehu and was (like Upper Egypt) divided into areas called Nomes There were up to twenty nomes, although they varied more in number and as the environment changed over time.
		The heraldic plant was the papyrus, but Lower Egypt was also represented by a bee, as in the Pharaoh´s Prenomen which begins with the epithet "he of the sedge and bee" (meaning he of Upper and Lower Egypt).
	www.ancientegyptonline.co.uk /nomeslower.html (413 words)

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		In Isaiah 19:1, the invasion of Egypt is represented as caused by "the Lord"; and in Isaiah 19:17, "Judah" is spoken of as "a terror to Egypt," which it could hardly have been by itself.
		Probably, therefore, the Assyrian invasion of Egypt under Sargon, when Judah was the ally of Assyria, and Hezekiah had not yet refused tribute as he did in the beginning of Sennacherib's reign, is meant.
		Egypt was famous for it (Exodus 9:31, 1 Kings 10:28, Proverbs 7:16, Ezekiel 27:7).
	www.biblestudytools.net /Commentaries/JamiesonFaussetBrown/jfb.cgi?book=isa&chapter=19 (2047 words)

	Coins of Roman Egypt
		Busiris, capital of this lower Egyptian nome, was reputedly the place where Isis buried her brother Osiris and thus an important place of pilgrimage, whose festivals of mourning for the death of the god were noted for their wild lamentations.
		The depiction of Athena on the coins of the nome suggests that Tefnu-t was assimilated to the Greek war goddess.
		Sa or Saïs, capital of the Saïte nome in Lower Egypt, was the center of the cult of the warrior goddess Neith, who was worshipped by the Lybians as well as the Egyptians.
	www.coinsofromanegypt.org /html/library/NFA/NFA_04.htm (1515 words)

	Egypt tours: Visit the historical places in egypt
		It was the capital of the second nome (Horus) of Upper Egypt.
		The main attraction here is the Temple of Horus, which is considered by most to be the best preserved cult temple in Egypt, but there is a mound of rubble to the west of the Temple which is probably the original old city of Djeba.
		It was the capital of the second nome (Horus) of Upper Egypt.French and Polish teams have excavated some of the ancient city, finding Old Kingdom mastabas and Byzantine house.
	www.summittoursegypt.com /historicalinfo1a.htm (583 words)

	Ancient Egypt Magazine - Reviews
		Most modern cats are thought be descended from the cats of ancient Egypt, providing a living link between the ancient civilization and modern times, and the author looks in some detail at the significance of cats in Egyptian life, religion and art.
		Of particular interest are some photographs taken during the last inundation of Egypt in September 1964, with one particularly evocative and splendid image of the Colossi of Memnon at Thebes, reflected in the still flood waters.
		Egypt in the first Millennium was a rich cultural melting-pot and this diversity is reflected in the clothing actually worn by people and taken with them to their graves.
	www.ancientegyptmagazine.com /reviews38.htm (2861 words)

	Ancient Egyptian Religion (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Egypt during the historic period was divided up into separate provinces called ‘Separt’ or Nomes as the Greeks called them.
		Egypt has no main pantheon instead there are hundreds of local totem gods, many with very similar appearances and qualities.
		Heliopolis became the religious capital of Egypt as it was where the temple of Re-Atum was based.
	www.magdalenian.co.uk /ancient_egyptian_religion.htm (5879 words)

	Egypt Temples: Horus, Temple of Edfu
		It was the capital of the second nome (Horus) of Upper Egypt.
		However, The main attraction here is the Temple of Horus, which is considered by most to be the best preserved cult temple in Egypt, however there is a mound of rubble to the west of the Temple which is probably the original old town of Djeba.
		Formerly, It was the capital of the second nome (Horus) of Upper Egypt.
	www.justegypt.org /egypt/monuments/horus.asp (152 words)

	The papyrological evidence seems to suggest that the duties of the epistatês were, in the main, quite similar to ...
		For the past half-century, scholars have subscribed to the view that police administration in Ptolemaic Egypt was uniform across the nomes (provinces) of the kingdom, and that police chiefs (archiphylakitai) in the villages were connected to nome-level chiefs by a lengthy chain of command (cf.
		This paper argues that neither was the case: that administrative structures varied from nome to nome, and that the hierarchy of police chiefs in Ptolemaic Egypt was flat.
		Moreover, the types of police chiefs within each nome varied from nome to nome, as did the geographical schemes of the nomes themselves.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/04mtg/abstracts/bauschatz.html (449 words)

	Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible \| Christian Classics Ethereal Library
		In Isa 19:1, the invasion of Egypt is represented as caused by "the Lord"; and in Isa 19:17, "Judah" is spoken of as "a terror to Egypt," which it could hardly have been by itself.
		Probably, therefore, the Assyrian invasion of Egypt under Sargon, when Judah was the ally of Assyria, and Hezekiah had not yet refused tribute as he did in the beginning of Sennacherib's reign, is meant.
		Struck with "terror" and "afraid" (Isa 19:17) because of Jehovah's judgments, Egypt shall be converted to Him: nay, even Assyria shall join in serving Him; so that Israel, Assyria, and Egypt, once mutual foes, shall be bound together by the tie of a common faith as one people.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/jamieson/jfb.x.xxiii.xx.html (2054 words)

	Ancient Egyptian Culture
		The nomes were completely overseen by the main government of Egypt during the New Kingdom, and the unsupervised rule of the nomarch came to an end.
		This division into nomes was a effective way to govern such a large mass of land and such a large body of people in the Old Kingdom.
		The periodic shift of nomarch's from nome to nome was phased out as the role of the nomarch was replaced by hereditary factors.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/prehistory/egypt/government/nomarchs.htm (439 words)

	Isaiah - Chapter 19 - Jamieson, Fausset, Brown Commentary on StudyLight.org
		In Isa 19:1, the invasion of Egypt is represented as caused by "the Lord"; and in Isa 19:17, "Judah" is spoken of as "a terror to Egypt," which it could hardly have been by itself.
		Zoan--The Greeks called it Tanis, a city of Lower Egypt, east of the Tanitic arms of the Nile, now San; it was one the Egyptian towns nearest to Palestine (Nu 13:22), the scene of Moses' miracles (Ps 78:12, 43).
		Struck with "terror" and "afraid" (Isa 19:17) because of Jehovah's judgments, Egypt shall be converted to Him: nay, even Assyria shall join in serving Him; so that Israel, Assyria, and Egypt, once mutual foes, shall be bound together by the tie of a common faith as one people.
	www.studylight.org /com/jfb/view.cgi?book=isa&chapter=019 (2146 words)

	CMA Exhibition Feature : About the Relief
		The face of each nome is a miniature portrait of Amenhotep III, and each recites a speech in the king's name.
		The god to whom the nomes bring offerings stood would have been carved in relief on the level above-bits of this upper register can be seen on the museum's relief.
		Hebenu was the capital of the Hare nome, which leads the procession of nome gods.
	www.clevelandart.org /exhibcef/consexhib/html/nomeAbo.html (494 words)

	Detail Page (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This map shows the 22 nomes, or ancient administrative divisions, of Upper Egypt, the region from the Faiyum south to the Nubian border.
		A nome was administered by a governor called a nomarch (heri-tep a'a in Egyptian) whose duties included the collection of taxes and the raising of armies for the king.
		The first nome, on the Egyptian border with Lower Nubia, is located at the bottom right corner of the map.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=AK15 (254 words)

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		These communities were responsible for providing the surpluses required by the government, often producing these for the religious temple foundations that were scattered throughout Egypt and in many ways acted as adjuncts of state government.
		Much of the resources that Egypt needed were within close reach in the Eastern Desert and were usually acquired by expeditions from the large religious foundations, either in conjunction with central government or on their own behest.
		This is a natural development of the later pre-dynastic trade between Egypt and the Levant seen in the archaeology of such sites as Ma’adi.
	www.unm.edu /~gbawden/328-egadmin/328-egadmin.doc (1650 words)

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