Hare nome

The deified Hare nome; closeup of a statue group of pharaoh Menkaure, Fourth Dynasty of Egypt[1]

The Hare nome, also called the Hermopolite nome (Ancient Egyptian: wnt "Cape hare") was one of the 42 nomoi (administrative divisions) in ancient Egypt; more precisely, it was the 15th nome of Upper Egypt.[2]

The Hare nome's main city was Khemenu (later Hermopolis Magna, and the modern el-Ashmunein) in Middle Egypt. The local main deity was Thoth, though the inscriptions on the White Chapel of Senusret I links this nome with the cult of Bes and Unut.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference mfa was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Wolfram Grajetzki, The Middle Kingdom of ancient Egypt: history, archaeology and society. London, Duckworth Egyptology, 2006, pp. 109-11
  3. ^ Upper Egypt nome 15, Digital Egypt for Universities