Iqer

Iqer was a nome in ancient Egypt, the sixth Upper province.

On the white chapel of Senusret I appears a list of all Egyptian nomes.

Next to Iunet, where Hathor was worshipped, a place called Shabet (identified by Henri Gauthier to be near modern Qena) was lying in the sixth Upper Egyptian nome, another place was Khadj.

The nome is already mentioned in a Fourth Dynasty inscription dating from the reign of the Pharaoh Snofru.

In the Ptolemaic (Greco-Roman) period, the nome was called Tentyrites, after Denderah, that appears in Greek sources as Tentyris.