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Lykopolis/Siout

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: M. Drew Bear

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

Last modified Feb 11, 2020 10:21 PM — History

tags: dare:ancient=1, dare:major=1, dare:feature=major settlement

A city of the west bank of the Nile, Lykopolis/Siout was the capital of the Thirteenth Nome of Upper Egypt (Lycopolites Nome) around 3100 B.C.

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Base map by Ryan M. Horne for Pleiades and the Ancient World Mapping Center (ancient terrain after the Barrington Atlas). Map interaction design and implementation by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, and Tom Elliott for Pleiades.

Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/756593

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
27.181346, 31.1825335

Locations:

DARE Location (330 BC - AD 640)
DARMC location 13553 (330 BC - AD 640)

Names:

Asiut (Spanish, modern)
Assiut (German, modern)
Assiūt (720 BC - 540 BC)
Asyūt (AD 1900 - AD 2000)
Asyūṭ (Modern Standard Arabic, 2670 BC - AD 2000)
Durunka (Modern Standard Arabic, 1548 BC - AD 2000)
Lykonpolis (1640 BC - 1548 BC)
Lykopolis (330 BC - AD 640)
Lykopolis (Ancient Greek, AD 300 - AD 640)
Lykōn Polis (Ancient Greek, 304 BC - AD 640)
Lykōn polis (304 BC - AD 640)
Lykōnpolis (Ancient Greek, 1640 BC - AD 640)
Siout (AD 300 - AD 640)
Siōout (Coptic, AD 300 - AD 640)
Suyūṭ (Modern Standard Arabic, AD 750 - AD 940)
Upuanttempel (German, 1548 BC - 1086 BC)
Usyūṭ (unspecified date range)
mḏd(nj) (Ancient Egyptian, 2010 BC - 1086 BC)
s3wt (2670 BC - 2168 BC)
sꜣwt (Ancient Egyptian, 2670 BC - 1640 BC)
sꜣwtj (Ancient Egyptian, 2010 BC - 1548 BC)
tꜣ-ʿnḫ (Ancient Egyptian, 2010 BC - 1640 BC)
Šiautu (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)

Lykopolis/Siout makes connections with:

Lykopolis/Siout connection Nilus (river) (unspecified date range)

Lykopolis/Siout receives connections from:

None

Place type:
settlement

References:

Evidence:

TP (Talbert: CUP) 8C3 (Talbert 412)

See Further:

See Also:

Wikipedia (English) Asyut

Related:

TM GEO ID 1271

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 77 E2 Lykopolis/Siout

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Asyut

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Suggested citation:
M. Drew Bear, 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, 'Lykopolis/Siout: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/756593> [accessed: 03 August 2020]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/756593 |title=Places: 756593 (Lykopolis/Siout) |author=Drew Bear, M. |accessdate=August 3, 2020 11:30 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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