Medinet Madi Narmouthis in Fayoum مدينه ماضي الفيوم

Medinet Madi Narmouthis in Fayoum مدينه ماضي الفيوم https://labyrinthofegypt.blogspot.com... Medinet Madi is a site with a very rich history dating back to 4000 years ago, at the end of Middle Kingdom (first half of the second millennium B.C.), when a village called Dja was founded in the so-called ‘Lake Region’, (present-day Fayoum), 100 kilometres south-west of Cairo. Medinet Madi History The history of Medinet Madi (“the city of the past”) started in the Middle Kingdom, in the beginning of the 2nd millennium B.C., when an agricultural project in the Fayoum region saw the foundation of a town called Dja and the construction of a temple by Amenemaht III and Amenemaht IV, which was dedicated to the cobra goddess Renenutet and the crocodile god “Sobek of Shedet”, patron of the entire region and its capital Shedet, “Horus who resides in Shedet”. The small temple was built following a very simple, but extremely original architectural design: a court and a portico with two columns, an atrium and a sanctuary with three niches. The scenes on the western side of the temple are named after Amenemhat III; those on the eastern side after Amenemhat IV, his son and successor. On the eastern wall of the atrium the king is portrayed performing the ritual “tightening of the rope” to found the temple, whereas on the western wall the gods Sobek and Anubis ritually purify the Pharaoh. During the Ptolemaic period, when Fayoum experienced a new agricultural redemption, the town of Dja – then called Narmouthis - a Greek name meaning “the city of (Isis)-Renenutet-Hermouthis”- and its old temple, which was “rediscovered” beneath a blanket of sand, were restored and consolidated, a high temenos was built and more monuments were erected north and south of the Middle Kingdom temple. Fayoum Travel Guide https://www.fayoumtravelguide.com تفضل بزياره مدونه الفيوم مدينه الجمال والتاريخ http://fayoum-orlando.blogspot.com قريه تونس بالفيوم https://www.fayoumtravelguide.com الفيوم مصر الصغري   / fayoumegypt   اشترك بقناتنا و فعِّل زرالجرس لتصلك جميع الاشعارت للفيديوهات الجديده 👈👇🥰 Would you please subscribe to our channel to get new videos ?👇👇👇👇👇👇😘    / fayoumsoasis   #EgyptianMythology #Sobek #Renenutet #AncientGods #EgyptianGods #TempleWorship #PtolemaicEgypt #Isis