White Walls

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White Walls is the English meaning of the ancient Egyptian name "Ineb-hedj," traditionally associated with the early capital city of Memphis.

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White Walls canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient city
historical place name
hasAlternativeTransliteration Ineb-hedj
hasArchaeologicalSiteNear Mit Rahina
Saqqara necropolis
surface form: Saqqara
hasCulturalContext Pharaonic Egypt
surface form: Ancient Egyptian civilization
hasEnglishName White Walls self-link
hasEtymology name likely refers to white-walled enclosure or fortress
hasLanguageOfOriginalName Ancient Egyptian
hasNameMeaning White Walls self-link
hasOriginalName Ineb-hedj
hasRegion Lower Egypt
surface form: Memphite region
hasRole administrative center of early Egyptian state
political center of early unified Egypt
isAssociatedWith Memphis
isAssociatedWithDynasty Early Dynastic Egypt
surface form: 1st Dynasty of Egypt

Second Dynasty of Egypt
surface form: 2nd Dynasty of Egypt
isAssociatedWithPeriod Early Dynastic Egypt
surface form: Early Dynastic Period of Egypt
isAssociatedWithRuler Narmer
surface form: Menes

Narmer
isEarlyNameOf Memphis
isKnownFrom later historical traditions about Memphis
isLocatedIn Lower Egypt
isLocatedNear Modern Cairo region
Nile
surface form: Nile River

west bank of the Nile
surface form: West bank of the Nile
isMeaningOf Ineb-hedj
isMentionedIn ancient Egyptian textual sources
isPartOf Memphis urban area
servedAs capital of ancient Egypt

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Ineb-hedj hasNameMeaning White Walls
White Walls hasEnglishName White Walls self-link
White Walls hasNameMeaning White Walls self-link