El Hiba

El Hiba (alt. el-Hibeh; Arabic الحيبة al-Ḥībah) is the modern name of the ancient Egyptian city of Tayu-djayet (t3yw-ḏ3yt), an ancient nickname meaning "their walls" in reference to the massive enclosure walls built on the site.^[1] In Coptic, it was known as ⲧⲉⲩϫⲟTeujo. During the Graeco-Roman period it was called Ancyron polis (Ancient Greek: Ἀγκυρῶν πόλις) and Ancyronpolis, meaning anchor city, and it took its name from the manufacture of stone anchors cut from the neighboring quarries.^[2] In antiquity, the city was located in the 18th Upper Egyptian nome, and today it is found in the Bani Suwayf governorate.

From the late 20th Dynasty to the 22nd Dynasty, Tayu-djayet was a frontier town, marking the division of the country between the High Priests of Amun at Thebes and the kings of Egypt at Tanis. A massive enclosure wall was built at the site, with bricks stamped with the names of the High Priests Pinedjem I and Menkheperre. Earlier, the High Priest Herihor also lived and operated from al-Hibah. During the 22nd Dynasty, king Shoshenq I built a temple dedicated to "Amun-Great-of-Roarings" at the site, complete with a topographical list of cities captured during his "First Campaign of Victory" in Palestine; the temple is also decorated by his son, Osorkon I. The ancient settlement is at 28°47′14″N30°55′16″E / 28.78722°N 30.92111°E / 28.78722; 30.92111 a little to the North of the modern town.

Desde 2001, El Hibeh ha sido objeto de excavaciones continuas a cargo de un equipo de arqueólogos de la UC Berkeley . ^{[ 3 ]} Sin embargo, debido a la inestabilidad derivada de la Revolución Egipcia de 2011 , se ha permitido a los saqueadores arrasar sistemáticamente el sitio, excavando cientos de fosas, dejando al descubierto tumbas, destruyendo muros y dejando restos humanos esparcidos por el terreno. ^{[ 4 ] [ 5 ]}

• Lista de pueblos y ciudades del antiguo Egipto
• Contenido multimedia relacionado con Ankyronpolis en Wikimedia Commons

• Atrevido, Georges. 1901. "El templo de Hibeh". Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte 2:154 – 156.
• Feucht, Erika. 1978. "Zwei Relieves Scheshonqs I. aus el Hibeh". Studien zur altägyptischen Kultur 6:69 – 77.
• Ranke, Hermann, ed. 1926. Koptische Friedhöfe bei Karâra und der Amontempel Scheschonks I. bei el Hibe: Bericht über den badischen Grabungen in Ägypten in den Wintern 1913 und 1914 . Berlín y Leipzig: Walter de Gruyter & Co.
• Wainwright, Geoffrey Avery. 1927. "El Hibah y esh Shurafa y su conexión con Herakleopolis y Cusæ". Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte 27:76 – 104.
• Wenke, Robert J. 1984. Investigaciones arqueológicas en el-Hibeh 1980: Informe preliminar . Informes del Centro Americano de Investigación en Egipto: Informes preliminares y finales de las excavaciones arqueológicas en Egipto desde la prehistoria hasta la época medieval 9. Malibu: Undena Publications

• Excavaciones de la UC Berkeley en El Hibeh. Archivado el 15 de agosto de 2007 en Wayback Machine.
• Los papiros de Hibeh, vol. I, editados con traducciones y notas por Bernard P. Grenfell y Arthur S. Hunt, 1906, en el Archivo de Internet.
• El Hibeh (el-Hiba) en la Red del Patrimonio Mundial
• Grupo de Facebook "Salven El Hibeh, Egipto"

28°46′25″N 30°55′22″E / 28.77361°N 30.92278°E / 28.77361; 30.92278