Khaset (Mountain bull, also Chasuu) was one of 42 nomoi (administrative division) in Ancient Egypt. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
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Geography [link]
Khaset was one of the 20 nomoi in Lower Egypt and had district number 6.
The area of the district is not readable, usually the nomoi were about 30-40 km (18-24 miles) in length and their area depending on the depth of the Nile valley and the beginning of the desert. [1] The area was calculated in cha-ta (1 cha-ta equals roughly 2,75 hectare / 2.4 acres) and the distance was calculated in iteru (1 iteru equals roughly 10,5 km / 6.2 miles) in length. [8]
The Niwt (main city) was Khasu/Xois (part of modern Sakha) and among other cities were Per-Wadjet/Buto (modern Tell el-Farain). Per-Wadjet was sometimes also part of the Sap-Meh nome. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
History [link]
Every nome was ruled by a nomarch (provincial governor) who answered directly to the pharaoh. [2] [3] [4] [5]
Every niwt had a Het net (temple) dedicated to the chief deity and a Heqa het (nomarch's residence). [1]
The districts main deity were Wadjet and Ra and among other major deities were Isis and Osiris. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Today the area is part of the Gharbia Governorate.
References [link]
- ^ a b c [1], Egypt Ancient.net, accessdate=2010-08-15
- ^ a b c d [2], Egypt tourist authority, accessdate=2010-08-15
- ^ a b c d [3], Anciet Egyptian religion, Philae.net, accessdate=2010-08-15
- ^ a b c d [4], Reshafim.org, accessdate=2010-08-15
- ^ a b c d [5], Aldokan.com, accessdate=2010-08-15
- ^ a b c [6], Digital Egypt for Universities, accessdate=2010-08-15
- ^ a b c [7], Ancient Egypt online, accessdate=2010-08-15
- ^ [8], Faszination Ägypten (in german), accessdate=2010-08-15
- Helck, Wolfgang ; Westendorf, Wolfhart: Lexikon der Ägyptologie. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1977. ISBN 3-447-01876-3
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Xois
Xois (Greek: Ξόις, Strabo xvii. p, 802; Ptol. iv. 5. § 50; Ξόης, Steph. B. s. v.) was a town of great antiquity and considerable size. It was located nearly in the center of the Nile Delta in Egypt, and is identified as the ancient Egyptian city of Khasut (Khaset or Sakha).
History
Xois sat upon an island formed by the Sebennytic and Phatnitic branches of the Nile. It belonged to the Sebennytic Nome, and later was the capital of its own nome, the Xoite nome.
The 14th dynasty consisted, according to Manetho, of 76 Xoite kings. This dynasty immediately preceded that of the Hyksos during the Second Intermediate Period. It seems possible, therefore, that Xois, from its strong position among the marshes of the Nile Delta formed by the intersecting branches of the river, could have held out during the occupation of the Delta by the Hyksos, or at least compromised with the invaders by paying them tribute. This hypothesis however, is not shared by most egyptologists today who believe that the 14th dynasty was based in Avaris in the eastern delta.
Nome
Nome may refer to:
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Nome (Egypt)
A nome (/noʊm/; from Greek: Νομός, “district”) was a subnational administrative division of ancient Egypt. Today's use of the Greek νομή, nomé rather than the Egyptian term sepat came about during the Ptolemaic period, when use of Greek was widespread in Egypt. The availability of Greek records on Egypt influenced the adoption of Greek terms by later historians.
Ancient Egypt
The division of ancient Egypt into nomes can be traced back to the Predynastic Period (before 3100 BC). These nomes originally existed as autonomous city-states, but later began to unify. According to ancient tradition, the ruler Menes completed the final unification.
Not only did the division into nomes remain in place for more than three millennia, the areas of the individual nomes and their ordering remained remarkably stable. Some, like Xois in the Delta or Khent in Upper Egypt, were first mentioned on the Palermo stone, which was inscribed in the Fifth Dynasty. The names of a few, like the nome of Bubastis, appeared no earlier than the New Kingdom. Under the system that prevailed for most of pharaonic Egypt's history, the country was divided into 42 nomes.
Nome (mathematics)
In mathematics, specifically the theory of elliptic functions, the nome is a special function and is given by
where K and iK ′ are the quarter periods, and ω1 and ω2 are the fundamental pair of periods. Notationally, the quarter periods K and iK ′ are usually used only in the context of the Jacobian elliptic functions, whereas the half-periods ω1 and ω2 are usually used only in the context of Weierstrass elliptic functions. Some authors, notably Apostol, use ω1 and ω2 to denote whole periods rather than half-periods.
The nome is frequently used as a value with which elliptic functions and modular forms can be described; on the other hand, it can also be thought of as function, because the quarter periods are functions of the elliptic modulus. This ambiguity occurs because for real values of the elliptic modulus, the quarter periods and thus the nome are uniquely determined.
The function τ = iK ′/K = ω1/ω2 is sometimes called the half-period ratio because it is the ratio of the two half-periods ω1 and ω2 of an elliptic function.
