White Walls

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White Walls is the English meaning of the ancient Egyptian name "Ineb-hedj," traditionally associated with the early capital city of Memphis.

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White Walls canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient city
historical place name
hasAlternativeTransliteration Ineb-hedj
hasArchaeologicalSiteNear Mit Rahina
Saqqara
linked to: Saqqara necropolis
hasCulturalContext Ancient Egyptian civilization
linked to: Pharaonic Egypt
hasEnglishName White Walls
hasEtymology name likely refers to white-walled enclosure or fortress
hasLanguageOfOriginalName Ancient Egyptian
hasNameMeaning White Walls
hasOriginalName Ineb-hedj
hasRegion Memphite region
linked to: Lower Egypt
hasRole administrative center of early Egyptian state
political center of early unified Egypt
isAssociatedWith Memphis
isAssociatedWithDynasty 1st Dynasty of Egypt
2nd Dynasty of Egypt
isAssociatedWithPeriod Early Dynastic Period of Egypt
isAssociatedWithRuler Menes
linked to: Narmer

Narmer
isEarlyNameOf Memphis
isKnownFrom later historical traditions about Memphis
isLocatedIn Lower Egypt
isLocatedNear Modern Cairo region
Nile River
linked to: Nile

West bank of the Nile
isMeaningOf Ineb-hedj
isMentionedIn ancient Egyptian textual sources
isPartOf Memphis urban area
servedAs capital of ancient Egypt

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ineb-hedj hasNameMeaning White Walls
White Walls hasEnglishName White Walls
White Walls hasNameMeaning White Walls