Hami
This town in the Eastern Desert near the southern Ruby Hills is known as an excellent source of alabaster. Carvings dedicated to Bast have been especially popular over many years (and there is a small temple to her here), but alabaster is most often used for canopic jars and other burial objects, sometimes even things as large as a sarcophagus. It is mined in blocks, then cut and worked at workshops in the town and shipped throughout Khemit. Hami is also a military center for its section of the Eastern Desert and has been since the 3rd Dynasty, with several units headquartered here to patrol the caravan routes as protection against bandits. The high seat of Menu, falcon-headed god of war, is a small but elaborate building constructed and maintained over the years by the soldiers of the garrison.
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