|
( Thebes, Egypt)
 The name Thebai is the Greek designation of the ancient Egyptian niwt "(The) City" and niwt-rst "(The) Southern City". At the seat of the Theban triad of Amun, Mut, and Khonsu, Thebes was known in the Egyptian language from the end of the New Kingdom as niwt-imn, "The City of Amun." This found its way into the Hebrew Bible as ?? ???? no? ?amôn (Nahum 38),"no" in Hebrew meaning city with "no amon" or "City of Amon" referring to the Egyptian deity Amon-Re, most likely it is also the same as ?? ("No") (Ezekiel 3014). In Greek this name was rendered ???sp???? Diospolis, "City of Zeus", as Zeus was the god whom the Greeks identified with Amun, see interpretatio graeca. The Greeks surnamed the city µe???? megale, "the Great", to differentiate it from numerous other cities called Diospolis. The Romans rendered the name Diospolis Magna. In modern usage, the mortuary temples and tombs on the west bank of the river Nile are generally thought of as part of Thebes. Two towns at or near two important temples on the outskirts of the city are now called Luxor (Arabic ??????, Al-Uq?ur, "The palaces") and al-Karnak (??????).
|
Thebes, Egypt Subcategories
Thebes, Egypt Articles
|
|
