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    The Coptos Decrees are 18 complete or fragmentary ancient Egyptian royal decrees ranging from the 6th Dynasty (2345–2180 BC) to the late 8th Dynasty (c...
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  • The Coptos Decree of Nubkheperre Intef is a legal ruling written in hieroglyphic on the wall of the Min-temple in Coptos. English Wikisource has original...
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    in a mudbrick mastaba just south of Coptos. Shemay is known primarily from the Coptos Decrees, a series of decrees by various king of the 8th Dynasty granting...
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  • archaeological evidence for kings of the Eighth Dynasty are royal decrees discovered in Coptos, which name some of the last pharaohs of the dynasty. Further...
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  • Qift (redirect from Coptos)
    stelae, now known as the Coptos Decrees. These stelae date to the Sixth and Seventh dynasties, with copies of royal decrees from the pharaohs concerning...
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    appearing on a single decree, the Coptos Decree R, now in the Egyptian Museum, JE 41894. The decree concerns the temple of Min at Coptos, exempting it from...
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    The reliefs are executed in raised and sunken relief. At Koptos, the Coptos Decree was found on a stela which referred to the actions of Nubkheperre Intef...
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    with Raymond Weill in 1910–1911, he discovered the Coptos Decrees in the temple of Min at Coptos. Adolphe Reinach was born on 12 January 1887 in the...
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    archaeologist and Egyptologist known mainly for his discovery of the Coptos Decrees. He was killed in the first month of the First World War, in August...
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    in which the temple of Min in Coptos—Khui's seat of power—was the focus of much royal patronage. The Coptos Decrees, which record successive pharaohs...
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    a fragmentary decree inscribed on a limestone slab known as Coptos Decree h and concerning offerings for the temple of Min at Coptos. One of the two...
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  • Egypt Construction of the Egyptian pyramids Coptic language Coptos Decree Coptos Decrees Coregency Stela Corn mummy Cornelius Gallus Coronation of the...
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    Koptos, he is known from several monuments and the Coptos Decrees, which are a series of royal decrees granting titles to the family and set up at the Temple...
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  • Pepi II became king. He is mentioned in two royal decrees, one from Abydos, the other from Coptos; one of them is dated to Year 11. It is unknown when...
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    Heidelberg, 1922. (best and complete transcripts) Coptos Decree Great Mendes Stela Ptolemaic Decrees Budge, (1989), 1929. The Rosetta Stone. p. 103. Budge...
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  • position in Coptos has been identified variously as a haty-a or as merely a temple official. James Henry Breasted argued that the Coptos Decree must be read...
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  • century BC Nomarch of Coptos and vizier of Upper Egypt in the early First Intermediate Period. The beneficiary of most of the Coptos Decrees, his career is symptomatic...
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  • décrets royaux trouvés à Koptos … 1910 et 1911. 1912. (Research about Coptos Decrees) La fin du Moyen Empire Égyptien: étude sur les monuments et l'histoire...
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  • mines, often departing from Coptos (Quft). There is evidence of Min worship indicating a relation to the Temple of Min at Coptos. The stela erected by Minemhat...
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    different decrees found in the temple of Min at Coptos are attributed to Neferkauhor and survive to this day in fragmentary condition. Four of these decrees, inscribed...
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  • Collins Entertainment, (2003). pp. 176-77. ISBN 0007143990. see the Coptos Decree. Winlock, Herbert: Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 10 (1924) 258 with...
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    Reiches, p.50 Daniel Polz, Der Beginn des Neuen Reiches, p.50 see the Coptos Decree Herbert Winlock, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 10 (1924) 258 with...
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    Abydos, Deir el-Bersha, Tell Basta, Sais, Heliopolis, Memphis, Akhmim, Coptos, Esna, Edfu, and probably in every Temple of Millions of Years in the Theban...
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  • Wadjkare is mentioned only once: in a royal limestone tablet known as Coptos Decree R (Cairo museum; obj. JE 41894), which is said to have been created...
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    series of decrees published as trilingual inscriptions on massive stone blocks in Ancient Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and demotic. Earlier decrees, like...
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    Prophet of Amun, respectively. Psusennes, priest of Min, Horus and Isis at Coptos, known from a stela at the British Museum. Banishment Stela, a stela issued...
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    all of continent of Africa, was divided into a church that accepted the decrees of the council, and one that rejected them. The church that accepted the...
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    Egypt.: 23  The Blemmyes attacked Coptos and Ptolemais with incursions into Upper Egypt; Probus defeated them.: 23  Coptos revolted in 293 and was destroyed...
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    Luxor, attempting to record as much as possible. Afterwards they stopped at Coptos, the Sinai, and sites in the Egyptian Delta, such as Tanis, before returning...
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    the ancient Egyptian calendar was introduced at the time of Ptolemy III (Decree of Canopus, in 238 BC) which consisted of adding an extra day every fourth...
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