Sumenu

25°31′48″N 32°27′27″E / 25.53000°N 32.45750°E / 25.53000; 32.45750

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in hieroglyphs
Era: Ptolemaic dynasty
(305–30 BC)

Sumenu or Smenu (Egyptian: S(w)mnw) was an ancient Egyptian town located in Upper Egypt. It housed the most prominent early-Middle Kingdom sanctuary of the crocodile-god Sobek.[4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Brugsch712 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ 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. ^ Gauthier, Henri (1928). Dictionnaire des Noms Géographiques Contenus dans les Textes Hiéroglyphiques Vol .5. p. 37.
  4. ^ Betrò, p. 91

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