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Per-Wadjet (Upper Egypt)

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(Redirected from Kom Ishqaw) Place in Sohag, Egypt
Aphrodito ϫⲕⲱⲟⲩ
ⲧϣⲕⲟⲟⲩ
ⲧⲕⲟⲟⲩكوم اشقاو
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Coordinates: 26°50′39″N 31°25′25″E / 26.8443°N 31.4235°E / 26.8443; 31.4235
Country Egypt
GovernorateSohag
Time zoneUTC+2 (EST)

Per-Wadjet (Ancient Greek: Ἀφροδίτης πόλις or Ἀφροδιτώ; Coptic: ϫⲕⲱⲟⲩ or ⲧϣⲕⲟⲟⲩ or ⲧⲕⲟⲟⲩ) was an Ancient Egyptian town in the 10th Upper Egyptian nome. The ancient town is identical with the modern village Kom Ishqau. Per-Wadjet is known from Egyptian sources since the New Kingdom. It was a cult place for Hathor, who was here identified with Wadjet. The Greeks identified Hathor with Aphrodite and called the town Aphroditopolis or Aphrodito. In Greek and Roman times the town was sometimes the nome capital. In Kom Ishqau were found the papyri of Dioscorus of Aphrodito, who lived there in the 6th century A.D. These papyri are an important source for life in Byzantine Egypt. A long-lost 2.200 year-old temple with words linked to Ptolemy IV Philopator was accidentally found during drilling work on a sewage project by the Egyptian archaeological mission in the village in early September 2019. Temple stones for installing the sewage pumps, limestone wall remnants and ground floor were also revealed during the excavation. Inscriptions described Hapi, the God of the Nile, presenting offerings of varied animal and birds in the walls of the temple.

Hieroglyphs

O1
Z1		 M13I10
X1 O49
pr wꜣḏ(t)
in hieroglyphs
Era: New Kingdom
(1550–1069 BC)
M13I10
O49
or
V4I10
O49
wꜣḏ
in hieroglyphs

References

  1. ^ Gauthier, Henri (1925). Dictionnaire des Noms Géographiques Contenus dans les Textes Hiéroglyphiques Vol .1. p. 181.
  2. Farouk Gomaà: Kom Ischqau, in Wolfgang Helck, Eberhard Otto (editors): Lexikon der Ägyptologie III, Wiesbaden 1980, ISBN 3447021004, S. 674-75
  3. "Long-lost 2,200-year-old temple of Pharaoh Ptolemy IV discovered". Fox News. 2 October 2019.
  4. "Lost Egyptian temple unearthed 2,200 years after it was built for King Ptolemy IV". CNN.
  5. "StackPath". dailynewsegypt.com. Retrieved 2020-09-17.
  6. Henri, Gauthier (1925). Dictionnaire des Noms Géographiques Contenus dans les Textes Hiéroglyphiques Vol .2. p. 65.
  7. 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. 973.


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