Lykopolis/Siout
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M. Drew Bear
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
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History
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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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/756593
27.181346, 31.1825335
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (330 BC - AD 640)
- DARMC location 13553 (330 BC - AD 640)
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- 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 connection Nilus (river) (unspecified date range)
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settlement
- Evidence:
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 77 E2 Lykopolis/Siout
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Asyut
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 October 2023]
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