Waset

Japanese: Waset
Waset

...The city stretches along both sides of the Nile, with the present-day city of Luxor at its center. Its ancient Egyptian name was Waset, and in the Old Testament it was recorded as No Amon (meaning "city of the god Amun"), but it is unclear why the Greeks called it Thebes (Thebes) after the city of the same name in Boeotia. Its development as a city was relatively slow, beginning at the end of the Old Kingdom, and with the establishment of the 11th Dynasty based here and the reunification of the kingdom by Mentuhotep II (reigned c. 2061-c. 2010 BC), it established itself as a political and religious center (of the worship of Amun).

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…現在のルクソルの町を中心にナイル両岸にひろがる。古代エジプト名はウアセトWaset,旧約聖書ではノ・アモンNo Amon(〈アメン神の市〉の意)と記されたが,ギリシア人がボイオティアの同名の都市にちなんでテーベ(テーバイ)と呼んだ理由は不明である。都市としての発達は比較的遅く,古王国時代末期に始まり,ここを拠点とする第11王朝の成立とメンチュヘテプ2世(在位,前2061ころ‐前2010ころ)の王国再統一により,政治および宗教(アメン信仰)の中心地としての地位を確立した。…

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