Mendes

Mendes ( Μένδης ) is the Greek name of the ancient Egyptian Djedet (now Arab تل الربع Tall al - Rub ˁ ), a city in the eastern Nile Delta.

History

It was the capital of the 16th Gaus of Lower Egypt and the capital of ancient Egypt during the 29th Dynasty. The city lay on the pating Saxon branch of the Nile, which is now silted up, about 35 kilometers east of Mansura.

The place is now one of the largest archaeological sites in the Nile delta, and consists of the Tell al - Rub ˁ with the remains of the main temple and the Egyptian settlement and the Tell Timai in the south, where there was the Greco- Roman settlement. Mendes has an approximate north- south distance of three kilometers and extends about 900 meters from east to west.

Former Egyptian chief god of Mendes was the ram god Ba -neb - Djedet. In the meantime, the third Egyptians looked at Hat- Mehit than his wife, who formed the triad of Mendes with their son Hor -pa - chered.