Medinet Madi

The ruins of Medinet Maadi temple
Amenemhat III's cartouche at Medinet Maadi temple

Medinet Madi (Arabic: مدينة ماضي), also known simply as Madi or Maadi (ماضي) in Arabic, is a site in the southwestern Faiyum region of Egypt with the remains of a Greco-Roman town where a temple of the cobra-goddess Renenutet (a harvest deity) was founded during the reigns of Amenemhat III and Amenemhat IV (1855–1799 BC). It was later expanded and embellished during the Greco-Roman period. In the Middle Kingdom the town was called Dja, later the town was known as Narmouti (Coptic: ⲛⲁⲣⲙⲟⲩϯ, ⲛⲁⲣⲙⲟⲩⲧⲉ, lit.'the ones of Renenutet'), Narmouthis (Ancient Greek: Ναρμουθις) and Narmuda (Arabic: نرموده).[1][2]

  1. ^ Stefan, Timm (1988). Das christlich-koptische Agypten in arabischer Zeit. p. 1734.
  2. ^ Carsten Peust, Konstanz (2010). Die Toponyme vorarabischen Ursprungs im modernen Ägypten. Göttingen. p. 69.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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