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The Aphroditopolite Nome (also Wadjet) was a nome in ancient Egypt. The administrative region was the tenth nome of Article "An Egyptian Village in the Age of Justinian" in ''The Journal of Hellenic Studies'', Vol. 64, 1944 (1944), pp. 21-36
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The Aphroditopolite Nome (also Wadjet) was a nome in ancient Egypt. The administrative region was the tenth nome of Upper Egypt
Upper Egypt ( ar, صعيد مصر ', shortened to , , locally: ; ) is the southern portion of Egypt and is composed of the lands on both sides of the Nile that extend upriver from Lower Egypt in the north to Nubia in the south.
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Tjebu
Tjebu or Djew-Qa, was an ancient Egyptian city located on the eastern bank of the Nile in what is now Asyut Governorate, Egypt. In Greek and Roman Egypt, its name was Antaeopolis after its tutelary deity, the war god known by the Hellenized n ...
. During the Ptolemaic period, the nome's capital city was Aphroditopolis.
Several governors of the province are known. These include Kaikhenet (II)
Kaikhenet was an ancient Egyptian local governor in the 10th Upper Egyptian province; the latter called Wadjet in Egyptian language. Kaikhenet lived at the beginning of the Fifth Dynasty and is known from his decorated rock cut tomb at Hemamieh. ...
in the Old Kingdom.
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