Pathyris/Aphroditopolis (settlement)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: T. Wilfong, S.E. Sidebotham, J. Keenan
Creators: T. Wilfong, S.E. Sidebotham, J. Keenan
Contributors:
Hugh Cayless, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jen Thum, Jeffrey Becker, H. Kopp, Herbert Verreth, B. Siewert-Mayer, Mark Depauw, R. Talbert, Adam Prins, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Francis Deblauwe, Eric Kansa
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Apr 25, 2024 10:50 PM
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History
Pathyris/Aphroditopolis is known especially for its necropolis where material ranges in date from the Predynastic Period to the Middle Kingdom. In the 160s BC Ptolemy VI Philometor established a military outpost at the site that was destroyed in the first century BC.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/786084
25.369659, 32.473946
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 14149 (750 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10000 meters.
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- Aphroditopolis (750 BC - AD 640)
- Aphroditēs Polis (Ancient Greek, 304 BC - AD 640)
- Aphroditēs polis (304 BC - AD 640)
- Dair al-Fāḫūrī (Modern Standard Arabic, unspecified date range)
- Dēr al-Faḫūrī (Arabic, AD 1918 - AD 2000)
- Dēr al-Fāḫūrī (Arabic, AD 1918 - AD 2000)
- Hathorkapelle (German, 1548 BC - 1086 BC)
- Hathortempel (German, 1548 BC - 1086 BC)
- No. 4 Village (English, unspecified date range)
- Pathyris (750 BC - AD 640)
- Pathyris (Ancient Greek, 1640 BC - AD 640)
- Thomas Afia Village (English, unspecified date range)
- Wādī No. 6 (Modern Standard Arabic, unspecified date range)
- al-Gabalain (Modern Standard Arabic, 2670 BC - AD 1516)
- al-Gabalaīn (2168 BC - 2010 BC)
- al-Ǧabalain (Modern Standard Arabic, 6000 BC - AD 640)
- jnrtj (Ancient Egyptian, 2010 BC - 1086 BC)
- jnrwtj (Ancient Egyptian, 2670 BC - 2168 BC)
- jwnjt-(mḥjt) (Ancient Egyptian, 2010 BC - 1640 BC)
- jwnt (Ancient Egyptian, 2010 BC - 1086 BC)
- pr Ḥtḥr (Ancient Egyptian, 1548 BC - 1086 BC)
- pr-Ḥwt-Ḥr (Ancient Egyptian, 2010 BC - 1640 BC)
- pr-Ḥwt-ḥr (Ancient Egyptian, 1640 BC - 1548 BC)
- Ḥagar Isnā (Arabic, 1548 BC - 1086 BC)
- Ḥaǧar Isnā (Modern Standard Arabic, unspecified date range)
- Pathyris/Aphroditopolis (settlement) connection Nilus (river) (unspecified date range)
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settlement, catacomb, cemetery, necropolis
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 80 B3 Pathyris/Aphroditopolis
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Gebelen
T. Wilfong, S.E. Sidebotham, J. Keenan, Hugh Cayless, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jen Thum, Jeffrey Becker, H. Kopp, Herbert Verreth, B. Siewert-Mayer, Mark Depauw, R. Talbert, Adam Prins, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Francis Deblauwe, and Eric Kansa, 'Pathyris/Aphroditopolis (settlement): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/786084> [accessed: 21 November 2024]
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