Bigeh

z
n		 mwtt
xAst
snmwt[1][2]
in hieroglyphs
Era: Middle Kingdom
(2055–1650 BC)
z
nw		 Aa15
t niwt
or
snw
Aa15		 t t
xAst
snm(w)t or snm(w)tt[1][2]
in hieroglyphs

Bigeh (Arabic: بجح; Ancient Egyptian znmwt)[3] is an island and archaeological site situated along the Nile River in historic Nubia and within the Aswan Governorate of southern Egypt. The island has been situated in the reservoir of the Old Aswan Dam since the dam's initial completion in 1902.[4][5]

  1. ^ a b Gauthier, Henri (1928). Dictionnaire des Noms Géographiques Contenus dans les Textes Hiéroglyphiques Vol. 5. p. 40.
  2. ^ a b Wallis Budge, E. A. (1920). An Egyptian hieroglyphic dictionary: with an index of English words, king list and geological list with indexes, list of hieroglyphic characters, coptic and semitic alphabets, etc. Vol II. John Murray. p. 1031.
  3. ^ Allen, James P. Middle Egyptian Literature 2014, p.12
  4. ^ Sidney Peel,The Binding of the Nile and the New Soudan, p.76 (1904)
  5. ^ Canay Ozden, The Pontifex Minimus: William Willcocks and Engineering British Colonialism, p. 196, Annals of Science, 2013. DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2013.808378