[1] City in the 4th upper Egyptian nome
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The Egyptian Thebes, city in the 4th upper Egyptian nome.
I. Names
Actually Ws.t ('the strong'), from which derived, no later than the 17th dynasty, a female personification Ws.t nḫt.tj ('victorious Thebes'). Beginning with the Middle Kingdom (c. 1990-1630 BC), often called simply njw.t, 'the city…