Historical place profile

Beit el-Wali

Beit el-Wali, meaning "House of the Holy Man", was a site in Nubia where Ramesses II built a temple sacred to Amun-Re, Re-Horakhti, Khnum and Anuket. The temple was relocated in the 1960s.

Record details
Research ID
catholon:place:pleiades:795784
Catalogue ID
pleiades:795784
Place type
settlement, temple-2
Coordinates
23.767842, 32.860268
Precision
precise
Locator semantics
representative_point_not_boundary

Historical description

Beit el-Wali, meaning "House of the Holy Man", was a site in Nubia where Ramesses II built a temple sacred to Amun-Re, Re-Horakhti, Khnum and Anuket. The temple was relocated in the 1960s.

Geographic evidence

The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.

Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 81 C2 Beit el-Wali

Source and reuse

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Research path

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