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TM Geo 1001
Egypt - 3rd Lower Egyptian nome, Gynaikopolites (Kom el-Hisn, Damanhur) (?) (L03?)The region ca. 250 BC - provincia: AegyptusThe provincia ca. 200 AD - according to Ptolemaios metropolis of the L07 Menelaites (admin.) - cf. also L03? Kanobikon Stoma (TM Geo 4356), L03? Kanobike Dioryx (TM Geo 11798), L00 Kanobike Pyle (TM Geo 58666), L00 Kanobeus (TM Geo 999)
31.320896,30.063645 (Lat,Long)
Links: Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire, EDH, EDH [2], Pleiades, ToposText, Wikipedia
Status: city: polis; metropolis; civitas; area: nesos
Greek name(s): Κάνωπος - Κάνωβος
Latin name(s): Canopus
Egyptian name(s): Pr-gwt (Pa-gwt) - Gnp
Ethnic(s): Kanopites (Kanopitis) - Kanopikos (Kanobikos) - Kanopeus - Kanobis - Canopicus - Canopita (Canopitis) - Canopeus - Canopitanus
Modern name(s): Abuqir
Variants: Kanopos (Kanobos - Canopus) - Abuqir (Abukir) - sites including Maamurah; Serapeum (Sarapieion)
Repertoria: Dizionario III, p. 65; p. 66 (quater); p. 66-67 (1); Suppl. 2, p. 88 (1); Timm, p. 438-445
Biblio: Erichsen, Glossar, 1954, p. 576; P. L. Bat. 21, 1981, p. 487 (1); Vandorpe, Geografische elementen, 1988, p. 81; CDD P, 2010, p. 34; p. 110
Map: Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 166-167 (Abuqir / Kanopos); Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 74 C2 (Canopus); ZPE 168 (2009), p. 269 (Canopos)
Note: see also the attestations for L03? Serapeum (11799); cf. the expression 'Kanobismos', 'Kanobic (i.e. luxurious) life', Enkanopos (i.e. the god Sarapis in Kanopos - TM god 130)
TM GeoRef | Publication | Attestation | Material | Language | Date | Provenance |
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23129 | I. Delta p. 249 no. 22, 2 | ἐν Κανώβῳcontext: 'Amerois (?) the Ammon in Kanobos' | stone | Greek | BC04 - AD03 | Egypt, L03? - Kanopos (Abuqir) (?) [found & written] |
23823 | Short Texts 1 211, 3 | Κανωπίτηςcontext: 'Horos son of Phaon from Kanopos to Apollon as vow' → status: ethnicon | stone (marble) | Demotic / Greek | BC03 | Egypt [written] Greece, Sporades - Pythagorio [found] |
29457 | PSI 5 543, 52 | εἰς Κάνωπον | papyrus | Greek | BC03 | Egypt, 00 - Arsinoites (Fayum) (?) [written] Egypt, 00a - Philadelpheia (Gharabet el-Gerza) [found] |
119222 | PSI 4 409 a, 21 | εἰς Κάνωπονbiblio: P. L. Bat. 21, 1981, p. 487 | papyrus | Greek | BC03 | Egypt, 00 - Arsinoites (Fayum) (?) [written] Egypt, 00a - Philadelpheia (Gharabet el-Gerza) [found] |
119221 | P. Ryl. Gr. 4 555, 5 - 6 | ἐν Κανώπωιbiblio: P. L. Bat. 21, 1981, p. 487 | papyrus | Greek | BC03 | Egypt, L00 - Alexandria (?) [written] Egypt, 00a - Philadelpheia (Gharabet el-Gerza) [found] |
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