Editing Heryshaf (section)

==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.</ref>

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>