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Medinet Maadi

Faiyum Governorate, Egypt

Medinet Madi, also known simply as Madi or Maadi in Arabic, 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 (a harvest deity) 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, later the town was known as Narmouti (, , lit.'the ones of Renenutet'), Narmouthis and Narmuda.

Archaeological site data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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