No Amon (settlement)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/17683

The capital of ancient Egypt, mentioned in Jeremiah 46:25 and Nahum 3:8

Names

Hebrew: אמון מנא = ʾMWN MNʾ 1

Temporal Data

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Event Description	Date	Comp./Composition	MS./Manuscript	Ed./Edition
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela 1	before c.1170	c.1173	13th C	1907

Sources

1Ammon of No: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 103 [Hebrew with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Liran Yadgar, “No Amon” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/17683.

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Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; abstract; and Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
Liran Yadgar: categorization, matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue

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