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| hiero = <hiero>Hr:Z1-S:Z1*N21-f</hiero>
| cult_center = [[Heracleopolis Magna]]
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| Greek_equivalent = [[Heracles]]<br>[[Dionysos]]
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[[File:Hislake.png|thumb|Lepsius on a spelling variant.<ref name="Anon. u551">{{cite web | title= | url=https://ia802307.us.archive.org/16/items/ahnaselmedinehhe11navi/ahnaselmedinehhe11navi.pdf | access-date=2024-04-30}}</ref>]]
In [[Egyptian mythology]], '''Heryshaf''', or '''Hershef''' ({{
==Temple at Heracleopolis Magna==
The site goes back to the [[Early Dynastic Period (Egypt)|Early Dynastic Period]] or the [[Old Kingdom of Egypt]]. The precise founding date of Herakleopolis is not known, but an entry on the Palermo Stone reporting king Den's visit to the [[sacred lake]] of Heryshef at Nenj-neswt, suggests that the town had already been founded by the 1st Dynasty. The site was called ''nn-nswt'' in [[Demotic (Egyptian)|Demotic]] which was pronounced ''ǝhnes'' in [[Coptic language|Coptic]], Heracleopolis (Magna) during the [[Hellenistic period]] and the [[Roman Empire]] and Ihnasiyya in [[Egyptian Arabic]].<ref>Reviewed Work: Ihnasya el-Medina (Herakleopolis Magna): Its Importance and Its Role in Pharaonic History by Mohamed Gamal el-Din Mokhtar, Review by: Hans Goedicke, ''Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt'', Vol. 20 (1983), p. 119
No remains of the Old Kingdom temple survive. [[Flinders Petrie]] found remains of a temple at the site dating to the [[Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt|Twelfth Dynasty]]. The Twelfth Dynasty temple was rebuilt during the [[Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt|Eighteenth Dynasty]] and later refurbished during the [[Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt|Nineteenth Dynasty]].<ref>Koichiro Wada, "Provincial Society and Cemetery Organization in the New Kingdom", ''Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur'', Bd. 36 (2007), pp. 347–389</ref> During the reign of [[Ramesses II]], a [[pronaos]] was added to the temple. The sixteen palm columns used were taken from existing temples, possibly those of [[Djedkare Isesi]] or [[Sahure]]. Yasuoka speculates that Ramesses II's fourth son, Prince [[Khaemweset]], may have been the official who directed this project.<ref>Yoshifumi Yasuoka, "Some remarks on the palm columns from the pronaos of Heracleopolis Magna", ''The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology'', Vol. 97 (2011), pp. 31–60</ref>
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==High Priests of Heryshaf==
Many of these names are known from the [[Stela of Pasenhor]].
* [[Nimlot C]], son of pharaoh Osorkon II and his queen Djedmutesankh, [[Twenty-second Dynasty of Egypt]]<ref>Morris L. Bierbrier, ''Historical Dictionary of Ancient Egypt'', Scarecrow Press, August 14, 2008, p. 170</ref>
* Ptahudjankhef, son of Nimlot C and Tentsepeh C
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* Hemptah B, son of Pasenhor A and Petpetdidies
[[Coffin of Nedjemankh|Nedjemankh]], whose coffin was looted from Egypt in 2011 and sold to the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] before being returned to Egypt in 2019,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/style/article/egypt-gold-coffin-of-nedjemankh-trnd/index.html|title=Stolen gold coffin displayed at the Met returned to Egypt|website=[[CNN]]|date=27 September 2019 }}</ref> is also believed to have been a priest of Heryshaf.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2018/nedjemankh-gilded-coffin|title=Nedjemankh and His Gilded Coffin|website=[[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]}}</ref>
==References==
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