 Landscape in the south of the village of Gebel en-Nūr | ||
| Gebel en-Nūr · جبل النور | ||
| Governorate | Beni Suef | |
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| Residents | 2.073 (2006) | |
| height | 42 m | |
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Give en-only, Arabic:جبل النور, Ǧabal an-Nūr, is a village and an archaeological site in Middle Egypt in the GovernorateBeni Suef on the east side of the Nils. In the south of the village are the remains of an ancient city, its cemetery and a temple of Isis from the time of Ptolemy II, which was only uncovered in 2014.
background
location
The village of Gebel en-Nūr is located on the east side of the Nile about 14 kilometers southwest of New Beni Suef and about two and a half kilometers north of the village of Gheiyāḍa ash-Sharqīya. The new gas power plant about 5 kilometers south of the village can also serve as a point of reference. The main livelihood of the village is agriculture.
history
The place is still missing in many travel guides. Until the publication of Farouk Gomaà and his colleagues in 1991, this site was virtually unknown even to science. The Temple of Isis from the time of Ptolemy II was only uncovered in 2014 by employees of the Egyptian Antiquities Service.[1]
In Ptolemaic times, a city was built here, which is still largely buried under a mound of rubble, 500 meters long in north-south direction and 150 meters wide. Ceramic finds on the surface date from the late to the Arab period. The city had a temple in its southern part. To the northeast of the city is the former rock grave cemetery, which has not yet been investigated. The graves have already been partially looted. Gomaà found a larger grave that has four burial chambers on the side and one on the back of the central chamber. There were three human-shaped stone coffins at the grave entrance.
Gomaà also suggested that this is the Roman site Alyi or. Aiy could have found that from the Itinerary of Antony, a street directory of the Roman Empire, and the Notitia Dignitatum, a Roman state manual. A clarification is still pending. Another candidate would be el-Muḍill el-Qiblī, ten kilometers further south, which fits better with the distance information, but has only a few remains of ancient settlements.
getting there
In Beni Suef you cross the Nile to get to the east side. Continue straight for 4 kilometers to a roundabout east of New Beni Suef to get at 1 29 ° 1 ′ 41 ″ N.31 ° 7 ′ 21 ″ E to get on the trunk road to Gebel en-Nūr in a south-westerly direction. On this trunk road you reach the village after twelve kilometers. At the southern tip of the village you can continue driving on a slope and park the vehicle in the area of the guard house.
mobility
You have to walk to the temple and the cemetery.
Tourist Attractions
The cemetery and Ptolemaic temple are south of the village.
- 1 Gebel en-Nūr village(28 ° 57 ′ 25 ″ N.31 ° 1 '56 "E)
- 2 Gebel en-Nūr cemetery(28 ° 56 '34 "N.31 ° 1 '56 "E)
- 3 Isis temple. The 27 meter long limestone temple from that time Ptolemy ’II (Reigns 285 to 246 BC) is in the fertile land, about 400 meters south of the southern edge of the village. It was surrounded by a roughly square enclosure wall with a side length of about 70 meters, with the temple located roughly in the northeast quarter of the area. It is the first Ptolemaic temple found in the Beni Suef governorate. The pylon to the temple is on the west side. The temple is still about a meter long and has only a few decorative remains in the base area, on which Ptolemy II with offerings to the Nile god Hapi is shown. Individual rooms of the temple can be made out. According to initial investigations, the temple is said to have been built for the goddess Isis. The walls in relief were buried again to protect the temple.(28 ° 56 ′ 46 ″ N.31 ° 1 '47 "E)
kitchen
Restaurants can be found in Beni Suef.
accommodation
Accommodation can be found in Beni Suef.
trips
The tour of Gebel en-Nūr can be combined with a visit to Beni Suef and other sites on the east side of the Nile like that Monastery of St. Virgin at Bayāḍ,بياض, And the monastery of St. Antony in Deir el-Meimun connect.
literature
- : Middle Egypt between Samalūṭ and the Gabal Abū Ṣīr: Contributions to the historical topography of the Pharaonic period. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 1991, Tübingen Atlas of the Middle East: TAVO / Beihefte / B; 69, ISBN 978-3-88226-467-8 , Pp. 72, 80, 184, 245, plates LII, LIII.
Individual evidence
- ↑Egyptian archaeologists unearth Ptolemy II temple for Isis, Message on Luxor Times, May 19, 2014.
