
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 wikt:downriver, upriver from Lower Egypt in the north to Nubia in the south. ...
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Article "An Egyptian Village in the Age of Justinian" in ''The Journal of Hellenic Studies'', Vol. 64, 1944 (1944), pp. 21-36
/ref> Its capital was Tjebu. During the Ptolemaic period, the nome's capital city was Aphroditopolis.
Several governors of the province are known. These include Kaikhenet (II) in the Old Kingdom.
References
Nomes of ancient Egypt
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