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In the 13th century CE a very imposing temple still stood here. Akhmim was the Egyptian Apu, or Khen-min (in Coptic, Shmin) known to the Greeks as Chemmis or Panopolis, capital of the Chemmite nome of Upper Egypt. The ithyphallic Min ( Pan) was here worshipped as " the strong Horus." Herodotus mentions the temple dedicated to Perseus and asserts that Chemmis was remarkable for the celebration of games in honor of that hero, after the manner of the Greeks, at which prizes were given; as a matter of fact some representations are known of Nubians and people of Puoni ( SomalianSomalia ( Somali: Soomaaliya Arabic: As-Sumal , formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic is an African country that exists solely in a de jure capacity. Somalia has no recognized central government authority, national currency, or any other featur coast) clambering up poles before the god Min. Min was especially a god of the desert routes on the east of Egypt, and the trading tribes are likely to have gathered to his festivals for business and pleasure, at Coptos (which was really near to Neapolis, Kena) even more than at Akhmim. Herodotus perhaps confused Coptos with Chemmis. StraboStrabo ("squinty") was a term employed by the Romans for anyone whose eyes were distorted or deformed. The father of Pompey was called " Pompeius Strabo. A native of Sicily so clear sighted that he could see things at great distance as if they were nearby mentions linen-weaving as an ancient industry of Panopolis, and it is not altogether a coincidence that the cemetery of Akhmim is one of the chief sources of the beautiful textiles of Roman and Coptic age that are brought from Egypt.
MonasteriesA monastery is the habitation of monks. Originally: a hermit's cell. Christian monasteries are also called abbey, priory, charterhouse, friary, and preceptory The habitation of nuns is also called a convent. The communal life of a monastery is called ceno abounded in this neighborhood from a very early date; Shenout (Sinuthius), the fiery apostle and prophet of the Coptic national church, was a monkA monk is a male religious ascetic. The word comes from the Greek monachos , commonly translated as a solitary person''. It should be noted, however, that monachos is a word that had to be forged especially to name the then new phenomenon of men living so of Atrepe (now Suhag) and led the populace to the destruction of the paganPagan may refer to: A believer in Paganism. One who practices idolatry. One who is not Christian, Muslim nor Jewish, or who does not worship the God of Abraham. Such usage, while traditional in the above three religions, may be considered derogatory. edifices. He died in 451; some years earlier NestoriusNestorius (c. 451) was Patriarch of Constantinople ( April 10, 428 June 22, 431). He received his clerical training as a pupil of Theodore of Mopsuestia in Antioch and gained a reputation for his sermons that led to his enthronement by Theodosius II as Pa, the ex-patriarch, had succumbed perhaps to his persecution and to old age in the neighborhood of Akhmim. NonnusNonnus ( Egyptian for "saint"), Greek epic poet, a native of Panopolis (Akhmim) in the Egyptian Thebaid, probably lived at the end of the 4th or the beginning of the 5th century AD. His principal work is the Dionysiaca an epic in forty-eight books, the ma, the Greek poet, was born at Panopolis at the end of the 4th century.This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopędia Britannica. 1911 Britannica
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