Per Nemty (Hieracon)

Per Nemty (pr nmty; House of Nemty), an Ancient Egyptian settlement also known in Greek as Hieracon and at the modern village of al-Atawla, on the right/eastern bank of the Nile River northeast of Assiut (5 km).

A Temple-block from el-Atawla with name of Hotepibre of the early 13th Dynasty is in the Cairo Museum (Temp 25.4.22.3).

It stood nearly midway between the western extremity of the Ἀλαβαστρινὸν ὄρος or Alabstrine Mountains (the site of the Kom al-Ahmar Necropolis) and the city of Asyut (Greek Lycopolis), latitude 27° 15′North.

Hieracon is distinct from Nekhen (Ἱεράκων πόλις, Hierakon polis Strabo xvii.

25° 52′North, nearly opposite Eileithyias polis (Ειλείθυιας πόλις, Egyptian Nekheb, modern El Kab), and capital of the third nome of Upper Egypt.