El Hiba
الحيبة al-Ḥībah | |
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  El Hiba Location in Egypt | |
| Coordinates: 28°46′25″N 30°55′22″E / 28.77361°N 30.92278°E | |
| Country |  Egypt |
| Governorate | Beni Suef |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | +3 |
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| Tayu-djayet in hieroglyphs | ||||||||||
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El Hiba (alt. el-Hibeh; Arabic الحيبة al-Ḥībah) is the modern name of the ancient Egyptian city of Tayu-djayet (t3yw-ḏ3yt), an ancient nickname meaning "their walls" in reference to the massive enclosure walls built on the site.[1] In Coptic, it was known as ⲧⲉⲩϫⲟ Teujo. During the Graeco-Roman period it was called Ancyron polis (Ancient Greek: Ἀγκυρῶν πόλις) and Ancyronpolis, meaning anchor city, and it took its name from the manufacture of stone anchors cut from the neighboring quarries.[2] In antiquity, the city was located in the 18th Upper Egyptian nome, and today it is found in the Bani Suwayf governorate.
- ^ Kitchen, Ken (1986). The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt (1100-650 BC), 2nd edition. Warminster, England: Aris & Phillips Ltd. p. 269. ISBN 0-85668-298-5.
- ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), Ancyron polis