Listed 3 sub titles with search on: Information about the place for wider area of: "LYKOPOLIS Ancient city EGYPT" .
LYKOPOLIS (Ancient city) EGYPT
Lycopolis (he Lukon polis, Ptol. iv. 5. § 63; Steph. B. s. v.; Strab.
xvii. p. 813 Lycon. Plin. v. 9. s. 11; Lyco, Itin. Anton. p. 157: Eth. Lukopolites),
the name of two cities in Aegypt.
1. In the Thebaid, the capital of the nome Lycopolites, SE. of Hermopolis, in
lat. 27° 10' 14” N.: the modern El Syout. It was seated on the western bank of
the Nile. The shield of a king named Recamai, who reigned in Upper Egypt, probably
during the shepherd dynasty in the Lower Country, has been discovered here. (Rosellini,
Mon. Civ. i. 81.) Lycopolis has no remarkable ruins, but in the excavated chambers
of the adjacent rocks are found mummies of wolves, confirming the origin of its
name, as well as a tradition preserved by Diodorus (ii. 88; comp. Aelian. Hist.
An. x. 28), to the effect that an Aethiopian army, invading Aegypt, was repelled
beyond the city of Elephantine. by herds of wolves. Osiris was worshipped under
the symbol of a wolf at Lycopolis: he having, according to a myth, come from the
shades under that form, to aid Isis and Horus in their combat with Typhon. (Champollion,
Descript. de l'Egypte, vol. i. p. 276; Jollois, Egypte, vol. ii. ch. 13.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
(he Lukon polis). A city of Upper Egypt, on the west bank of the Nile, between Hermopolis and Ptolemais. Its name was said to be derived from the fact that in its vicinity an Aethiopian army was once routed by wolves, but more probably from its worship of the jackal (wolf) god Anubis.
Receive our daily Newsletter with all the latest updates on the Greek Travel industry.
Subscribe now!
