British Museum Expedition to Middle Egypt Ashmunein (1980) Occasional Paper No. 37 AS NEW

London: The British Museum, 1982. First Impression. Paperbound. As new/No . Royal octavo [27.5cm/ 11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 55; Fully illustrated with 33 b-w halftone and pen & ink plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional snapshots. ... Wiki notes: "Khemenu ( mnw), the Egyptian language name of the city, means "Eight-Town", after the Ogdoad, a group of eight "primordial" deities whose cult was situated there. The name survived as Coptic Shmun, from which the modern name el Ashmunein survives. The city was the capital of the Hare nome (the fifteenth nome of Upper Egypt) in the Heptanomis. Hermopolis stood on the borders of Upper and Lower Egypt, and, for many ages, the Thebaid or upper country extended much further to the north than in more recent periods. As the border town, Hermopolis was a place of great resort and opulence, ranking second to Thebes alone.