Asyut - Coptic Monastery of Dei Rifa

Some 4mi/6km south of the rock tombs we come to the Coptic Monastery of Dei Rifa (El-Deir), near which are several rock tombs of the Middle and New Kingdoms belonging to princes and dignitaries of Shes-hotep (Greek Hypselis) capital of the Hypselite nome, in which the ram headed Khnum was revered. The town lay some 4.5mi/7km southeast of Asyu at the village of Shotb, whose name preserves the ancient Egyptian name of the town.