Assiout
Assiout (Assyout, Asyut, أسيوط in Arabic) is a city of more than: 400000 inhabitants in High-Egypt, on the the Nile, halfway between Cairo and Louxor (approximately 320 kilometers in the south of Cairo and 250 km in the north of Louxor). The modern, capital city of the governorship of Assiout, is also the seat of a university.
In the past called Lycopolis by the Greek , in reference to the god who was honoured there, Oupouaout, represented in the shape of a wild dog.
Of its situation in the center of a vast very fertile plain, it was the starting point of the roads of caravans leading to the oases. Today still, thanks to the stopping on the Nile, it is a point of passage.
One can see with the Musée of Louvre, a statue out of wooden of acacia of Hapidjéfaï (), governor of the province of Assiout during the reign of Sésostris {{Ier}}. It probably comes from its tomb with Assiout.
The necropolis of the ancient city, made up of funerary caves, is on the Western hills.
Mythology
For the Egyptians, Oupouaout is the guard of this city (see Egyptian gods).
Lycopolis means in Greek “city of the wolf” .
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