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Wah-Sut
Sign in to saveWah-Sut (, meaning Enduring are the places of Khakaure justified in Abydos) is a town located south of Abydos in Middle Egypt. The name of the town indicates that it was originally built as an outlying part of Abydos, set up by the Egyptian state as housing for the people working in and around the funerary complex of pharaoh Senusret III (fl. c. 1850 BCE) of the Twelfth Dynasty, at the peak of the Middle Kingdom.
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The entry is geolocated on the map, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under topics including Ancient Egypt, Archaeological sites in Egypt and Cities in ancient Egypt.
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Archaeology
- Senusret III complex
- Mortuary temple
- Hidden tomb
- Town
- Mayor’s House
- Elite houses
- Birth brick
- References
Wah-Sut (, meaning Enduring are the places of Khakaure justified in Abydos) is a town located south of Abydos in Middle Egypt. The name of the town indicates that it was originally built as an outlying part of Abydos, set up by the Egyptian state as housing for the people working in and around the funerary complex of pharaoh Senusret III (fl. c. 1850 BCE) of the Twelfth Dynasty, at the peak of the Middle Kingdom.
This complex consists of the mortuary temple, the town of Wah-Sut, and a tomb dug into the bed-rock beneath the Mountain of Anubis, a nearby hill with a pyramidal shape. The town continued to exist for at least another 150 years, well into the Thirteenth Dynasty, when it was close to a royal necropolis of the tombs of Neferhotep I and Sobekhotep IV (fl. c. 1730 BCE). A document attests to its existence during the much later New Kingdom.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wah-Sut” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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2 mapped locations