The Egyptian Book of the dead by P. Le Page Renouf and Edouard Naville

Renouf, P. Le Page (Peter Le Page), 1822-1897, Naville, Edouard, 1844-1926

Chapter 625: 1. _Nechen_, the chief hieroglyphic variants of which are ⁂, ⁂,

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Chapter 625: 1. _Nechen_, the chief hieroglyphic variants of which are ⁂, ⁂,

⁂ and ⁂⁂, was situated in the third nome (⁂ _Ten_) of Upper Egypt, and was called by the Greeks Hieracōnpolis, ‘city of the Hawks,’ from the hawk-headed divinities mentioned in this chapter as Powers of Nechen, and of which numberless pictures are found on the monuments.
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