page_title: Nome (Egypt)
section_title: Lower Egypt nomes
hierarchical_section_title: Nome (Egypt) / History / Dynastic Egypt / Lower Egypt nomes
caption_attribution_description: Map of Lower Egypt with historical nomes numbered.
context_page_description: A nome was a territorial division in ancient Egypt.
  Each nome was ruled by a nomarch. The number of nomes changed through the various periods of the history of ancient Egypt.
context_section_description: Lower Egypt (Egyptian "Ā-meḥty"), from the Old Kingdom capital Memphis to the Mediterranean Sea, comprised 20 nomes. The first was based around Memphis, Saqqara, and Giza, in the area occupied by modern-day Cairo. The nomes were numbered in a more or less orderly fashion south to north through the Nile Delta, first covering the territory on the west before continuing with the higher numbers to the east. Thus, Alexandria was in the Third Nome; Bubastis was in the Eighteenth.
  White Walls Nome
  Travellers land
  Cattle land
  Southern shield land
  Northern shield land
  Mountain bull land
  West harpoon land
  East harpoon land
  Andjety god land
  Black bull land
  Heseb bull land
  Calf and Cow land
  Prospering Sceptre land
  Eastmost land
  Ibis-Tehut land
  Fish land
  The throne land
  Prince of the South land
  Prince of the North land
  Sopdu-Plumed Falcon land
caption: Lower Egypt nomes
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