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AKHMIM
AKHMIM. Modern name for the Egyptian Khent-Min, Greek Khemmis
or Panopolis in the ninth Upper Egyptian nome. Little remains
of the ancient city under the modern town. Akhmim is the home city
of Ay. In 1981, colossal statues of Ramesses II and his daughter and
Queen Meritamun were discovered there. Unsupervised excavations
at the end of the 19th century led to the discovery of many textiles
and textile fragments from the Coptic Period. The nearby tombs
of the Old Kingdom at el-Hawawish were copied and published by
an Australian expedition from Macquarie University in 1979–1992.
See also ATHRIBIS; MIN.
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