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Lysimachis
Arsinoites (Fayum), meris of Themistos (00b)

GEO ID: 1275
Name: Lysimachis
Variant names: Lysimachis - Lysimachides Duo - T-set-n-Panetbeus ('The place of Panetbeus')
Greek name: Λυσιμαχίς
Latin name:
Egyptian name: Tȝ-s.t-n-Pa-Nȝ-ḏbȝ.w
Coptic name: ⲗⲓⲥⲓⲙⲁⲭⲓⲥ
Other:
Modern name:
Ethnic:
Country: Egypt
Provincia: Aegyptus
Region: 00
Nome: b
Administrative situation: in the 3rd century BC Lysimachis belonged to the 00b meris of Themistos, but in the 2nd century BC it seems to have shifted to the 00c meris of Polemon
Status: village: kome
Location: near 00c Kynopolis (1195), 00b Trikomia (2470)
Identification:
Repertoria: Dizionario III, p. 214; Suppl. 1, p. 189; Suppl. 2, p. 113; Suppl. 3, p. 69; Suppl. 4, p. 83; Timm, p. 1497-1498; Wessely, Topographie, 1904, p. 100; P. Tebt. 2, 1907, p. 387-388
Bibliography: P. Lille Dem. 2, 1973, p. 223; CPR 13, 1987, p. 24-25; Kramer, CPR 18, 1991, p. 106-114; Rathbone, Towards a historical topography of the Fayum, 1996, p. 55; Mueller, Settlements of the Ptolemies, 2006, p. 25; p. 206 no. 51-52
Maps:
Notes: obsolete reading: Tȝ-s.t-n-Pa-ỉwỉw-(n)-Ḥr; new reading in BGU 9 1896, 241 & 1897 a, 31 & 37 (no toponym; cf. BL 12, p. 22)