| Per Nemty (Hieracon) | |
| Native Name: | Per Nemty (al-Atawla) |
| Map Type: | Egypt |
| Map Size: | 250 |
| Coordinates: | 27.2333°N 44°W |
| Cultures: | Ancient Egypt |
Per Nemty (pr nmty; House of Nemty), an Ancient Egyptian settlement also known in Greek as Hieracon and at the modern village of al-Atawla, on the right/eastern bank of the Nile River northeast of Assiut (5 km). It was the capital of the 12th Nome of Upper Egypt.[1] The town was centered on the Temple of Nemty, the god Nemty being the ferryman god.
In the Old Kingdom, the governors of the 12th nome were buried at Deir_el-Gabrawi. The area hosted powerful nomarchs durning the 6th Dynasty.
A Temple-block from el-Atawla with name of Hotepibre of the early 13th Dynasty is in the Cairo Museum (Temp 25.4.22.3).[2]
In the New Kingdom, the temple may have seen some construction with a lintel naming Ahmose I.[3]
Hieracon or Hierakon (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Ἱεράκων κώμη, Ptolemy vi. 7. § 36), also called Theracon, Egyptian pr nmty, was an ancient fortified city of Upper Egypt situated on the right bank of the Nile, now the site of the modern-day village of Elatawlah, Egypt. It stood nearly midway between the western extremity of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Ἀλαβαστρινὸν ὄρος or Alabstrine Mountains (the site of the Kom al-Ahmar Necropolis) and the city of Asyut (Greek Lycopolis), latitude 27° 15′North.
In Roman times, was quartered the cohors prima of the Lusitanian auxiliaries.
Hieracon is distinct from Nekhen (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Ἱεράκων πόλις, Hierakon polis Strabo xvii. p. 817), which was south of Thebes, lat. 25° 52′North, nearly opposite Eileithyias polis (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Ειλείθυιας πόλις, Egyptian Nekheb, modern El Kab), and capital of the third nome of Upper Egypt.