Aphroditopolis Nome

Wadjet nome in hieroglyphs

The Aphroditopolis Nome (also Wadjet) was a nome in Ancient Egypt. The administrative region was the tenth nome of Upper Egypt.[1] Its capital was Tjebu. During the Ptolemaic period, the nome's capital city was Aphroditopolis.

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  1. ↑ 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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