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Surroundings:

Hawara, FalconHawara, Head of HorusHawara, Mummy of a boyFayyum, Papyrus with a lost of planets (P8279E-F)Fayyum, Receipt of a bull (P7882)Fayyum, Document from the Zeno ArchiveFayyum, Portrait of LiviaFayyum, Theater, Portrait of LiviaFayyum, Theater, Portrait of TiberiusFayyum, Portrait of AugustusFayyum, Head of Ptolemy I SoterFayyum, Inscription of DariusLahun, Necklace

Location:

  • Egypt, ‘Izbat Sa‘d Abū Diyāb
  • geo:29.273182,30.899233
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -18xx / unknown

Class:

  • Grave or burial field
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=21964

Annotations

The building of Herodotus` 'Labyrynth' is a huge mortuary temple that originally stood adjacent to this pyramid. Moreover, they [Egyptians] decided to preserve the memory of their names by a common memorial, and so they made a labyrinth62 a little way beyond lake Moeris and near the place called the City of Crocodiles. I have seen it myself, and indeed words cannot describe it; if one were to collect the walls and evidence of other efforts of the Greeks, the sum would not amount to the labor and cost of this labyrinth1Herodotus' description of the Egyptian Labyrinth inspired some central scenes in Bolesław Prus' 1895 historical novel, Pharaoh. Amenemhat III r. c. 1860 BC to c. 1814 BC,

See:

  1. Herodotus, The Histories, with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920., Book II, pp. 160–61. - http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126%3Abook%3D2&force=y

 

References

  1. Herodotus II


Relevant museums

National Archaeological Museum, Athens

National Archaeological Museum, Athens

München, Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst

München, Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst

Berlin, Neues Museum

Berlin, Neues Museum

Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

Allard Pierson Museum

Het Allard Pierson Museum is het archeologisch museum van de Universiteit van Amsterdam.


Nearby

Necropolis Hawara

Hawara pyramid and necropolis.

Pyramid of Amenemhet III at Hawara - Brick pyramid

Amenemhet III built his second pyramid near Oasis Fayoum

Szedet - Arsinoe - Crocodilopolis (6 km)

Coptic Phiom. Ancient city in the Faiyum Oasis [Fayum, Faijum, Fajum or Fajjum]


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