Ta-Mehu

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Ta-Mehu is the ancient Egyptian name for Lower Egypt, the northern region of the Nile Valley encompassing the Nile Delta.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Ta Mehu 2
Ta-Mehu canonical 2
Ta-Wy 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (42)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Egyptian toponym
historical region
associatedWith Deshret
Red Crown
surface form: Red Crown of Lower Egypt
borderedBy Mediterranean Sea
capital Memphis
contrastedWith Ta-Shema
Upper Egypt
correspondsTo northern modern Egypt
etymologicallyRelatedTo term for papyrus marshlands
governedBy Pharaoh
surface form: kings of Lower Egypt
hasClimate Mediterranean-influenced climate
hasDeity Wadjet
Wadjet
surface form: cobra goddess Wadjet
hasDirection north
hasEconomicActivity fishing
grain production
papyrus harvesting
hasGeographicalFeature Nile Delta
hasPoliticalSignificance seat of early Egyptian kings
hasReligiousSignificance location of major temple centers in the Delta
hasRole constituent region of unified Egypt
hasSymbol bee
papyrus plant
hasWritingSystem Egyptian hieroglyphs
knownFor dense population centers
fertile alluvial soils
intensive agriculture
languageOfName Egyptian language
laterIntegratedInto Ptolemaic Kingdom
surface form: Ptolemaic Egypt

Ptolemaic–Roman Egypt
surface form: Roman Egypt
locatedIn Nile Delta
northern Nile Valley
nameInLanguage ancient Egyptian
partOf Two Lands of Egypt
Pharaonic Egypt
surface form: ancient Egypt
refersTo Lower Egypt
traversedBy Nile
surface form: Nile River
usedInPeriod Middle Kingdom of Egypt
surface form: Middle Kingdom

New Kingdom of Egypt
surface form: New Kingdom

Old Kingdom of Egypt
surface form: Old Kingdom

Pharaonic Egypt
surface form: Pharaonic period

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

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

Lower Egypt hasEgyptianName Ta-Mehu
Ta Shemau counterpart Ta-Mehu
this entity surface form: Ta Mehu
Ta Shemau pairedInRoyalTitleWith Ta-Mehu
this entity surface form: Ta Mehu
Ta-Shema oppositeOf Ta-Mehu
Two Lands of Egypt knownInAncientEgyptianAs Ta-Mehu
this entity surface form: Ta-Wy