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APHRODITOPOLIS (Ancient city) EGYPT
Aphroditopolis, Aphrodito, Veneris Oppidum (Aphrodites polis, Aphroditopolis,
Aphrodito: Eth. Aphroditopolites), the name of several cities in Egypt:
I. In Lower Egypt.: A town of the Nomos Leontopolites. (Strab. xvii.
p. 802.)
II. In the Heptanomis, or Middle Egypt.: Afrodito (Itin. Ant. p. 168:
Aphrodito, Hieroc. p. 730, Atfyeh, mounds, but no Ru.), a considerable city on
the E. side of the Nile; capital of the Nomos Aphroditopoltes. (Strab. xvii. p.
809; Ptol.) It was an episcopal see, down to the Arab conquest. Its coins are
extant, of the reigns of Trajan and Hadrian, with the epigraph Aphpodeitopoli.
(Rasche, s. v.)
III. In Upper Egypt, or the Thebais: (Tachta) on the W. side of the
Nile, but at some distance from the river, below Ptolemais and Panopolis; capital
of the Nomos Aphroditopolites (Plin. v. 9, 10. s. 11, Veneris iterum, to distinguish
it from No. 5; Strab. xvii. p. 813; Agatharch. de Rub. Mar. p. 22; Prokesch, Erinnerungen,
vol. i. p. 152.). (Deir, Ru.), on the W. side of the Nile, much higher up than
the former, and, like it, a little distance from the river; in the Nomos Hermonthites,
between Thebes and Apollonopolis Magna; and a little NW. of Latopolis. (Plin.
v. 10. s. 11.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited July 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Ca. 16 km S of Arment. One of several sites where Hathor, whom the Greeks identified with Aphrodite, was worshiped. This site was noted by Strabo (17.1.47). The remains of a temple dedicated to Hathor were rebuilt by Ptolemy Euergetes II. A necropolis from the Ptolemaic period has yielded Greek papyri and ostraca.
S. Shenouda, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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