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Medinet Madi
Medinet Madi
Medinet Madi

Medinet Madi is a site in the southwestern Faiyum region of Egypt with the remains of a Greco-Roman town where a temple of the cobra-goddess Renenutet was founded during the reigns of Amenemhat III and Amenemhat IV (1855-1799 BC). It was later expanded and embellished during the Greco-Roman period. In the Middle Kingdom the town was called Dja, in the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods it was called Narmuthis.
Site Information
Country: Egypt
District: Faiyum Governorate
Category: Ancient Temples
Site History: Second Millennium BC
Oldest Culture: Ancient Egyptians
Later Cultures: Ptolemaic + Roman
Site Features: Ancient Egyptian & Ptolemaic & Roman Monuments
UNESCO Tentative List
Part of: El Fayoum
Date of Submission: 1994
Exact Location
Elevation: 29 m
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