Zau

E153539

ancient city archaeological site

Zau is an ancient city, historically known as Sais, that served as an important religious and political center in Egypt’s Nile Delta.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Zau canonical	1

Statements (44)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient city ⓘ archaeological site ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Sais ⓘ
associatedWithDeity	Neith ⓘ
capitalOf	Sais nome ⓘ
coordinateLocation	31.0°N 30.8°E ⓘ
country	Egypt ⓘ
culture	Pharaonic Egypt ⓘ surface form: Ancient Egyptian civilization
declinePeriod	Hellenistic period ⓘ
excavatedBy	various Egyptological missions since the 19th century ⓘ
governedBy	pharaohs of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty ⓘ
hasArchaeologicalRemains	inscriptions ⓘ statues ⓘ temple ruins ⓘ
hasFeature	sacred lake (associated with Neith temple) ⓘ
hasRole	political center ⓘ religious center ⓘ
hasTemple	Temple of Neith ⓘ
hasTypeOfGovernment	monarchy (in dynastic periods) ⓘ
historicalEra	Classical antiquity ⓘ Iron Age ⓘ
languageUsed	Ancient Egyptian language ⓘ
locatedIn	Nile Delta ⓘ
locatedInAdministrativeEntity	Lower Egypt ⓘ
locatedNear	Rosetta branch of the Nile ⓘ
mentionedIn	Greek historical sources ⓘ Herodotus ⓘ
modernSiteNear	Sa el-Hagar ⓘ
partOf	Saite nome ⓘ Pharaonic Egypt ⓘ surface form: ancient Egypt
politicalFunction	royal residence during the Saite period ⓘ
region	Nile Delta ⓘ surface form: western Nile Delta
religiousFunction	cult center of Neith ⓘ
religiousStatus	principal cult center of goddess Neith ⓘ
religiousTradition	ancient Egyptian religion ⓘ
significantPeriod	Late Period of Egypt ⓘ Third Intermediate Period of Egypt ⓘ
timeOfFlourishing	6th century BCE ⓘ 7th century BCE ⓘ
tradeRole	regional economic center in the western Delta ⓘ
wasCapitalOf	Twenty-fourth Dynasty of Egypt ⓘ Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt ⓘ
writingSystem	Demotic script ⓘ Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sais → ancientName → Zau ⓘ