Krokodilopolis/Ptolemais Euergetis
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: R. Müller Wollermann
Creators: R. Müller Wollermann
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jen Thum, Jeffrey Becker, H. Kopp, Herbert Verreth, B. Siewert-Mayer, Mark Depauw, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt, Adam Prins, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Francis Deblauwe, Eric Kansa
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History
An ancient city in the Heptanomis and the capital of Arsinoites nome. The ancient Egyptian name of the site was Shedyet and in Pharaonic times it was a major cult center for the god Sobek.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/736948
29.3149635, 30.8399565
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (550 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 100 meters.
- DARMC location 4229 (550 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
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- Less than certain: Arsinoe (330 BC - AD 640)
- Arsinoe (AD 632 - AD 750)
- Arsinoitēs (Ancient Greek, AD 300 - AD 640)
- Arsinoitōn Polis (Ancient Greek, 304 BC - AD 640)
- Arsinoitōn polis (304 BC - AD 640)
- Arsinoë (unspecified date range)
- Arsinoïtēs (AD 300 - AD 640)
- Arsinoē (Ancient Greek, 330 BC - AD 750)
- Crocodilopolis (English, AD 1918 - AD 2000)
- Kimān Faris (1548 BC - 1086 BC)
- Krialon (30 BC - AD 300)
- Κροκοδείλων πόλις (Krokodeilon polis: Ancient Greek, 550 BC - AD 640)
- Krokodeilōn Polis (Ancient Greek, 304 BC - AD 640)
- Krokodeilōn polis (unspecified date range)
- Krokodeilōnpolis (Ancient Greek, 330 BC - 140 BC)
- Krokodilopolis (Ancient Greek, 1640 BC - 1548 BC)
- Kīmān Fāris (Modern Standard Arabic, unspecified date range)
- Madīnat al-Fayyūm (Modern Standard Arabic, 1640 BC - AD 2000)
- Medinet el-Fayum (modern)
- Mīt Fāris (Modern Standard Arabic, 1640 BC - 1548 BC)
- Ptolemais Euergetis (330 BC - AD 300)
- Ptolemais Euergetis (Ancient Greek, 304 BC - AD 640)
- Sobektempel (German, 1548 BC - 1086 BC)
- Tpolis Piam (Coptic, AD 300 - AD 640)
- al-Fayyum (AD 1900 - AD 1950)
- al-Fayyūm (Modern Standard Arabic, 2600000 BC - AD 2000)
- il-Fayyūm (Algerian Arabic, AD 1918 - AD 2000)
- šdt (Ancient Egyptian, 1640 BC - 1086 BC)
- Krokodilopolis/Ptolemais Euergetis part of (regional) Fayyum (oasis) (unspecified date range)
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settlement
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 75 D2 Krokodilopolis/Ptolemais Euergetis
Its local name was Shedet [Cohen].
R. Müller Wollermann, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jen Thum, Jeffrey Becker, H. Kopp, Herbert Verreth, B. Siewert-Mayer, Mark Depauw, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt, Adam Prins, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Francis Deblauwe, and Eric Kansa, 'Krokodilopolis/Ptolemais Euergetis: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/736948> [accessed: 14 October 2024]
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