 Palace of Muṣṭafā en-Naḥḥās Bāschā in Samannud | ||
| Samannūd · سمنود Sebennytos · Σεβεννῦτος | ||
| Governorate | Gharbīya | |
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| Residents | 57.177 (2006) | |
| height | 12 m, 12 m | |
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The one steeped in history egyptian city Samannud (also Samanud, Samanoud, Samannoud, Arabic:سمنود, Samannūd, old days: Sabnuti, Coptic: Djemnuti or Djebnnuti), the former Sebennytos (Greek Σεβεννῦτος), lies in Nile Delta on the west bank of the Damietta branch of the Nile, northeast of Aunt and east of el-Maḥalla el-Kubrā in the governorate el-Gharbīya. The city, in which around 57,000 people live today,[1] According to tradition, it was one of the stops of the holy family on their flight to Egypt. Next to the Church of St. Virgin and St. Aba Nub there are several significant historical buildings from Islamic times in the city.
background
location
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history
The place name Samannud still hides the ancient Greek place name Sebennytos, Σεβεννῦτος. The ancient Egyptian city Sabnuti was in the 12th Lower Egyptian Gau "Kuh mit Kalb" (Äg. Zeb-nuter) and was its capital. The existence of this city has been archaeologically proven since the 13th dynasty. Most of the legacies, however, come from the New Kingdom, the late and Greco-Roman times.
The pharaohs of the 30th dynasty come from Sebennytos, the as yet undiscovered royal tombs must be hidden here somewhere. The historian Manetho also came from Sebennytos. In Ptolemaic times, Manetho divided the Egyptian rulers into 30 dynasties.
The gods worshiped here included the hunting and military god Onuris, usually associated with the god of air and sunlight, and his female counterpart Mehit. The goddess Isis is said to have its origin in Sebennytos.
According to tradition, Samannud was station on the Escape route of the Holy Family to Egypt. She is said to have stayed here between 14 and 17 days. In Coptic times the city was now called Djemnuti or. Djebnnuti.
orientation
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getting there
In the street
One combines the visit of Busiris / Abu Sir Bana from Cairo out on a central delta tour with the ancient Egyptian sites Mendes (Tell er-Rub '), Bahbit el-Higara and Abu Sir Bana. Coming from Bahbit el-Higara, Sammanud is well signposted (about 12 km southwest).
By bus
The city can also be reached by minibuses. The 1 Bus stop The bus stop for buses to the south and west is located near the bank of the Nile arm not far from the Ibrāhīm-Sarāg-ed-Dīn-Hammām.
By train
Samannūd is on the railway line Cairo–Dumyāṭ. The city lets itself be so Cairo, Ṭanṭā, ez-Zaqāzīq, el-Maḥalla el-Kubrā, el-Manṣūra and Dumyāṭ to reach. The 2 Samannūd train station is located east of the city center. In the southwest there is a pedestrian bridge over the tracks.
mobility
Passenger traffic is carried out with a “tuk-tuk” auto rickshaw.
Tourist Attractions
Pharaonic time
1995 was in the east of the hospital one 1 magazine for example in the area of the former temple of Onuris-Schu and provided with a wall to store finds from the city and surrounding villages. Until the end of the 1990s, the sparse remains of this temple were accessible to everyone, surrounded by residential buildings. Most of the blocks, as well as in Bahbit el-Higara made of granite, found their way into museums. The entrance to this magazine is on its east side.
The magazine in the former temple district is not officially open to tourists! However, there is an inspector on site, so it is not hopeless to visit the site during his working hours (Sunday to Thursday, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.). If you want to take photos, you definitely need a permit (subject to a fee) from the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Cairo.
To the remains of the temple for the god of air and creator Onuris-Schu, who under Nectanebo II Last rebuilt, it includes column drums, capitals and throats. Most of the datable blocks are from Philip III Arrhidaios, Alexander IV of Macedon and Ptolemy II The majority of the scenes are sacrificial scenes in front of the god Onuris-Schu and the lion-headed goddess Mehit with the Atef crown. A procession of victims in front of Onuris-Schu and Mehit comes from the base area. In the remains of the inscriptions, a granite pylon and a vestibule are mentioned, which once belonged to the temple.
Mosques
- 2 el-'Adawy Mosque (مسجد العدوي, Masǧid al-ʿAdawī). The entrance, the domed hall and the minaret of the mosque are worth seeing.(30 ° 57 ′ 33 ″ N.31 ° 14 ′ 38 ″ E)
- 3 Minaret of the mosque of Sidi Salama (جامع سيدي سلامة, Ǧāmiʿ Sīdī Salāma) (30 ° 57 ′ 27 ″ N.31 ° 14 ′ 32 ″ E)
- 4 Minaret of the El Mitwalli Mosque (مسجد المتولي, Masǧid al-Mitwallī) (30 ° 57 ′ 30 ″ N.31 ° 14 ′ 36 ″ E)
- 5 El Qadi Husein Mosque (مسجد القاضي حسين, Masǧid al-Qāḍī Ḥusain). With the mausoleum and the wooden chapel.(30 ° 57 '44 "N.31 ° 14 ′ 46 ″ E)
Churches
The most important church in the city is the 6 Church of St. Virgin Mary and Aba Nub (Arabic:كنيسة السيدة العذراء و الشهيد ابا نوب, Kanīsat as-Sayyida al-ʿAḏraʾ wa ash-Shahīd Abā Nūb). This three-aisled church in the bazaar area dates from 1585. Saint Abu Nub lived at the time of Emperor Diocletian. He had been a staunch Christian since the age of 12 and died in the same year as a martyr under the then Alexandrian governor Armianus as part of the persecution of Christians. Local Christians report that Aba Nub keeps coming out of his icon to play with the children.
The church has three Holy of Holies for Aba Nub (left), for the Virgin Mary and for Aba Mussa. The iconostasis is crowned by a cross flanked by two winged serpents with four legs. Next to the cross are the representations of Mary (left) and Mary Magdalene (right). Among them are the evening meal depiction and 20 illustrations of the four evangelists and other important representatives of the Egyptian church. There are several relics on the north wall. In the west these are those of St. George and St. Mussa and a relic representing 8000 martyrs at the time of Aba Nub. To the east is the relic of Aba Nub.
Outside the church there is a spring from which Maria and her child are said to have already drunk. A granite bowl in which Mary is said to have baked bread for Jesus is exhibited in a glass showcase.
Secular buildings
- 7 Ibrāhīm-Sarāg-ed-Dīn-Hammām (حمام إبراهيم سراج الدين الاثري, Hammām Ibrāhīm Sarāg ad-Dīn al-atharī) (30 ° 57 ′ 27 ″ N.31 ° 14 ′ 34 ″ E)
- 8 Palace of Muṣṭafā en-Naḥḥās Bāshā(30 ° 57 '35 "N.31 ° 14 ′ 40 ″ E)
- 9 Ghuneim Palace (قصر غنيم, Qaṣr Ghunaim) (30 ° 57 '57 "N.31 ° 14 ′ 27 ″ E)
activities
The Church of St. Aba Nub is the destination of many pilgrims every year, especially on the 23rd Ba'una (Paoni, June 30th) and on the 24th Abib (July 31st).
shop
kitchen
accommodation
There is no hotel accommodation in the city of Samannūd, but in the neighboring city of el-Maḥalla el-Kubrā:
- Omar el-Khayyam Hotel, El-Mahalla el-Kubra, 26 July Square (Mīdān Sitta wa Aschrīn Yulyu) (about 300 m north of the train station). Tel.: 20 (0)40 223 4299, (0)40 223 4866, Fax: 20 (0)40 224 0555. The best hotel in the neighboring city of el-Mahalla el-Kubra with 36 double rooms.
- Dream Inn Hotel, El-Mahalla el-Kubra, Gamal Abd el-Nasser St., Manschiyat el Bakry. Tel.: 20 (0)40 212 0951, (0)40 212 0819, (0)40 212 0563, Fax: 20 (0)40 212 0951. Unclassified hotel with 32 mostly two-bed rooms.
health
- 1 Samannoud Central Hospital, El Mustashfa St.. Tel.: 20 (0)40 297 1989, (0)40 297 0010, Fax: 20 (0)40 297 1989. General Hospital.(30 ° 57 ′ 55 ″ N.31 ° 14 ′ 36 ″ E)
Practical advice
The Inspectorate for Coptic and Islamic Antiquities is located on the Nile next to the taxi stop near the Samannud Hammam. The head of the authority is Mr. Gamal, Tel. (040) 580 0088.
The office of the is located to the southwest of the station 2 police.
- 3 Post office (south of the el-Shahid-el-Badrawī primary school). Tel.: (0)40 297 0188. (30 ° 57 '48 "N.31 ° 14 ′ 35 ″ E)
trips
Visiting the city can be done with other sites along the Holy Family Escape Route connect so with Bilbeis, ez-Zaqāzīq, Daqādūs and Sacha.
Another church dedicated to St. Rifqa or St. Rebecca (Arabic:كنيسة الشهيدة رفقة, Kanīsat al-Shahīda Rifqa) is located in Sunbāṭ, about 20 kilometers from Samannud.
literature
Generally
- : Samannūd. In:Bosworth, Clifford Edmund (Ed.): The Encyclopaedia of Islam: Second Edition; Vol. 8: Ned - Sam. Suffer: Brill, 1995, ISBN 978-90-04-09834-3 , P. 1031.
- : Two thousand years of Coptic Christianity. Cairo: American University at Cairo Press, 2002, ISBN 978-977-424-757-6 , P. 174 (English).
- : Samannūd. In:Christian Coptic Egypt in Arab times; Vol. 5: Q - S. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 1991, Supplements to the Tübingen Atlas of the Middle East: Series B, Geisteswissenschaften; 41.5, ISBN 978-3-88226-212-4 , Pp. 2254-2262.
Temple of Onuris-Shu
- : Sebennytos. In:Helck, Wolfgang; Westendorf, Wolfhart (Ed.): Lexicon of Egyptology; Vol. 5: Building a pyramid - stone vessels. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1984, ISBN 978-3-447-02489-1 , Col. 766-768.
- : The Epigraphic Survey of Samanud. In:Journal of Egyptian Archeology (JEA), ISSN0075-4234, Vol.85 (1999), Pp. 55-83.
- : The Temple of Onuris-Shu at Samanud. In:Egyptian archeology: the bulletin of the Egypt Exploration Society (EA), ISSN0962-2837, Vol.14 (1999), Pp. 7-9.
- : Temples of the Last Pharaohs. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-19-512633-4 , Pp. 127 f., 141, 158.
Individual evidence
- ↑Egypt: Governorates & Major Cities, citypopulation.de, accessed April 19, 2014.
