| Avaris | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ancient Egyptian: Hut-Waret | ||||||
"House of the Region" | ||||||
| Location | Tell el-Dab'a, Ezbet Helmi | |||||
| Coordinates | 30°47′14.7″N 31°49′16.9″E | |||||
| Region | Lower Egypt | |||||
| Nome | Amti-Pehut | |||||
| Founder | Amenemhat I (?) | |||||
| Founded | 20th century BCE | |||||
| Main deities | Set, Astarte | |||||
| Monuments | Temples of Set and Astarte, Harbor of Avaris | |||||
Avaris (ancient Egyptian: ḥw.t-wꜥr.t, modern: Tell el-Dab'a) is an ancient Egyptian city in Lower Egypt, situated on the east bank of the Pelusiac branch of the Nile in the eastern Nile Delta. It became a popular town for Asiatic immigrants during the Second Intermediate Period and subsequently served as the capital city of the Canaanite Fourteenth Dynasty and the Hyksos Fifteenth Dynasty. Avaris probably also functioned as the provincial capital of Amti-Pehut, the nineteenth nome of Lower Egypt.
History[]
Ramesside Period[]
The Nineteenth Dynasty Pharaoh Ramesses II constructed a new capital city called Per-Ramesses roughly 2km to the north-east of Avaris. Subsequently Avaris, with its temples of Set and Astarte, as well as its harbor, got absorbed into Per-Ramesses as a suburban area.
|
This article relating to Ancient Egypt is a stub. You can help the Ancient Egypt Wiki by expanding it. |