El Qattah
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jun 10, 2022 06:54 AM
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History
At this site located northwest of modern Cairo in Egypt's Giza governate, early twentieth-century excavations identified, among other finds, a Middle Kingdom necropolis with evidence of at least 14 tombs, including the tomb of one Neha, a Middle Kingdom prince.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/166663104
30.2170479, 30.9668449
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Qattah (2010 BC - 1640 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- El Qattah (English, modern)
- El Qattah located at Nilus (river) (2010 BC - 1640 BC)
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catacomb, cemetery, necropolis
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The site is located in the second Lower Egyptian nome, Letopolites (Ausim).
Zachary Rosalinsky, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'El Qattah: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/166663104> [accessed: 23 November 2024]
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