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The Temple of Sais had a medical school associated with it, as did many ancient Egyptian temples. The medical school at Sais had many female students and apparently women faculty as well, mainly in gynecology and obstetrics. An inscription from the period survives at Sais, and reads, "I have come from the school of medicine at Heliopolis, and ...
Map of ancient Egypt with town names in hieroglyphs Index of four charts of ancient Egyptian Cities Lower Egypt Upper Egypt part 1 Upper Egypt and part of Nubia Nubia. This is a list of known ancient Egyptian towns and cities. [1]
Plutarch described the statue of a seated and veiled goddess in the Egyptian city of Sais. [45] [46] He identified the goddess as "Athena, whom [the Egyptians] consider to be Isis." [45] However, Sais was the cult center of the goddess Neith, whom the Greeks compared to their goddess Athena, and could have been the goddess that Plutarch spoke ...
Nome 1: Land of the bow; Nome 2: Throne of Horus; Nome 3: The Shrine; Nome 4: The sceptre; Nome 5: The two falcons; Nome 6: The crocodile / Dendera; Nome 7: Sistrum
The Platonic dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written around 360 BC, recount (through the voice of Critias) how the Athenian statesman Solon (638–558 BC) traveled to Egypt and in the city of Sais encountered the priests of the goddess Neith.
Neith – A creator and hunter goddess, tutelary deity of the city of Sais in Lower Egypt [45] Nekhbet – A vulture goddess, the tutelary deity of Upper Egypt [46] Nephthys – A member of the Ennead; the consort of Set who mourned Osiris alongside Isis [47] Nut – A sky goddess, a member of the Ennead [48]
It regards payments to the local temple, and was recorded on two steles. The location of the temple was near the Canopic branch of the Nile River , in the eastern Nile Delta of Lower Egypt . Accordingly, steles were erected at two locations as statements to curry political favor with the priesthood, and possibly the populace.
Meryneith (beloved of [the goddess] Neith), also named Meryre (beloved of [the sun-god] Re), was an ancient Egyptian official who lived in the Amarna Period, around 1350 BC. He is mainly known from his tomb found in 2001 at Saqqara. He is perhaps identical with the high priest of Aten Meryre, who is known from his tomb at Amarna.