Oryx nome

It was located, approximately, in the territories surrounding the modern city of Minya in Middle Egypt.

The nome is mentioned on vessels found in the pyramid complex of king Djoser, who ruled at the beginning of the Old Kingdom.

[2] Most of the history of this nome in the Middle Kingdom comes from the rock-cut tombs of its nomarchs, which were buried at Beni Hasan.

[3] Subsequent nomarchs managed to gather a considerable amount of wealth between the late 11th to middle 12th Dynasty, as shown by their large and finely decorated tombs at Beni Hasan; some of these governors, like Khnumhotep II, also held the national-level office of Overseer of the Eastern Desert.

[1] According to the inscriptions on the White Chapel of Senusret I, the local god of the Oryx nome was Horus of Hebenu.