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Deir el-Medina

a Pleiades name resource

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Modern name of the workers' village near the Valley of the Kings.

Romanized Name(s):
Deir el-Medina, Deir al-Medina, Deir el Medina

Name as attested:

دير المدينة‎

Language:
Arabic

Name type:
geographic name

Accuracy of transcription:
accurate

Level of transcription completeness:
complete

Level of certainty in association between name and the place:
Certain

Temporal attestations:

New Kingdom Egypt (1548-1086) (confident)

References:

See Further:

Wikipedia (English) Deir el-Medina

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

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