ham-mamat

Updated: May 18, 2025

Its two chief seats were situated, the one, Heliopolis, in the North on the eastern edge of the Delta, just where an early Semitic settlement from over the desert might be expected to be found, the other, Edfu, in the Upper Egyptian territory south of the Thebaïd, Koptos, and the Wadi Ham-mamat, and close to the chief settlement of the earliest kings and the most ancient capital of Upper Egypt.

H. R. (Harry Reginald) Hall - History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria in the Light of Recent Discovery