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Philadelpheia
Arsinoites (Fayum), meris of Herakleides (00a)
| GEO ID: | 1760 |
| Name: | Philadelpheia |
| Variant names: | Philadelpheia (Philadelphou Kome) - P-awi-n-t-meret-sen ('The place of the one who loves her brother') - N-nehou ('(The place of) the sycamore trees') (Tnouhe) - Gharabet el-Gerza (Darb Gerze - Darb el-Guerza) - sites including Kom el-Kharba el-Kebir; Rubbayat (sc. the Ptolemaic necropolis) |
| Greek name: | Φιλαδέλφεια |
| Latin name: | Philadelphia |
| Egyptian name: | Pȝ-ʿ.wy-n-tȝ-mr.t-sn - Nȝ-nh.w |
| Coptic name: | |
| Other: | |
| Modern name: | Gharabet el-Gerza |
| Ethnic: | Philadelphites - Philadelpheios |
| Country: | Egypt |
| Provincia: | Aegyptus |
| Region: | 00 |
| Nome: | a |
| Administrative situation: | pagus 2 |
| Status: | village: kome; polis; demi; vicus |
| Location: | |
| Identification: | U20? Philadelphos (1765)?; cf. also 00a Drymos Philadelpheias (600) |
| Repertoria: | Dizionario V, p. 74-78; p. 79; Suppl. 1, p. 247; Suppl. 2, p. 230; Suppl. 3, p. 158-159; Suppl. 4, p. 138; Suppl. 5, p. 106; P. Tebt. 2, 1907, p. 406 |
| Bibliography: | Viereck, Philadelphia, 1928; Erichsen, Glossar, 1954, p. 53; Hanson, ZPE 15 (1974), 1974, p. 229-248; Rübsam, Götter und Kulte in Faijum, 1974, p. 139-152; I. Fayoum 1, 1975, p. 196-200; Stuyck, Philadelpheia, 1987 (unpubl. thesis); Vandorpe, Geografische elementen, 1988, p. 38; Hanson, Life in a multi-cultural society, 1992, p. 133-145; Hanson, Pap. Congr. XX (Copenhagen 1992), 1994, p. 210-218; Bogaert, ZPE 120 (1998), p. 180-181; CDD N, 2004, p. 9-10; Mueller, Settlements of the Ptolemies, 2006, p. 24; p. 209 no. 75; CDD P, 2010, p. 12; CDD T, 2012, p. 30; p. 210 (ter) |
| Maps: | Baines / Malek, Atlas, 2002, p. 121 |
| Notes: | obsolete reading: Tȝ-nh.t |