Tjebu (Qaw El Kebir)

Tjebu Location

Tjebu or Djew-Qa, was an ancient Egyptian city placed on the eastern bank of the Nile in what is now Sohag Governorate, Egypt. In Greek and Roman Egypt, its figure was Antaeopolis after its protecting deity, the war god known by the Hellenized name Antaeus. Its contemporary name is Qaw El Kebir.

Several large terraced funerary composites in Tjebu by functionaries of the 10th Nome during the Twelfth and Thirteenth Dynasties represent the peak of non-royal funerary architecture of the Middle Kingdom. Cemeteries of different dates were likewise found in the domain. A Ptolemaic temple of Ptolemy IV Philopator, great and fixed under Ptolemy VI Philometor and Marcus Aurelius, was broken in the basic half of the 19th century. The temple in this town was large, comparatively speakingan 18-column pronaos, with a twelve-column hypostyle hall past the lobby hall, the inner sanctum, and 2 flanking chambers of equal size.

The edifice was paid primarily to "Antaeus", who was a warrior fusion of Seth and Horus. This deity's name is written with an obscure hieroglyph (G7a or G7b in the frequent Gardiner list), which gives no clew as to the orthoepy. modern Egyptologists read the name as Nemtiwey. Nephthys was the great goddess who taken worship in this temple, or perchance in an supporting shrine of her own, as the related female office of Nemtiwey. A Prophet of Nephthys is good for Tjebu. In cliffside quarries not far from the ancient site, visitors can see famous reliefs of both Antaeus and Nephthys. At the same time, the site has again drawn most of its concern since 19th- and early 20th-century archaeologists have took the labyrinth of relatively whole tombs in the dominion.

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