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Ptolemais Hormou
Arsinoites (Fayum), meris of Herakleides (00a)
| GEO ID: | 2024 |
| Name: | Ptolemais Hormou |
| Variant names: | Ptolemais Hormou - 'Mouth (of) the canal of Moiris' - P-seh-Ptolemaios ('The hall of Ptolemaios') - El-Lahun (Illahun) |
| Greek name: | Πτολεμαὶς Ὅρμου |
| Latin name: | Ptolemaidonar |
| Egyptian name: | Rȝ-tȝ-ḥny.t-n-Mȝ-wr - Pȝ-sḥ-Ptwlmys |
| Coptic name: | ⲗⲉϩⲱⲛⲉ |
| Other: | El-Lahun (Arabic) |
| Modern name: | El-Lahun |
| Ethnic: | |
| Country: | Egypt |
| Provincia: | Aegyptus |
| Region: | 00 |
| Nome: | a |
| Administrative situation: | Exo topoi |
| Status: | village: kome; demi |
| Location: | near 00a Kerkesoucha Orous (1069), at the Moiris canal (1385) |
| Identification: | cf. also 00a Ptolemaidos Hormou Oreine (15590) |
| Repertoria: | Dizionario IV, p. 212-214; Suppl. 1, p. 231; Suppl. 2, p. 179; Suppl. 3, p. 132; Suppl. 4, p. 114; Suppl. 5, p. 84 [c] (?); p. 85; Gauthier, Dictionnaire III, 1926, p. 124-125; Timm, p. 1485-1486; Wessely, Topographie, 1904, p. 130-131; P. Tebt. 2, 1 |
| Bibliography: | Gardiner, AEO 2 (1947), p. 116* no. 392A; Erichsen, Glossar, 1954, p. 311; Helck, RE, 1959, col. 1870, s.v. Ptolemais 7; Zauzich, Enchoria 7 (1977), p. 195; Bonneau CdE 54 (1979), p. 310-326; Arnold, LÄ III, 1980, col. 909-911; CPR 10, 1986, p. 27-28; Vandorpe, Geografische elementen, 1988, p. 127; p. 139-140; Bogaert, ZPE 120 (1998), p. 181; CDD R, 2001, p. 11; Mueller, Settlements of the Ptolemies, 2006, p. 24; p. 209 no. 73 |
| Maps: | Baines / Malek, Atlas, 2002, p. 121; Derda, JJP 36 (2006), p. 18 |
| Notes: | new reading in SB 1 5124, 418 (personal name, no toponym; cf. Litinas, Pap. Congr. XXIII (Vienna 2001), 2007, p. 405) |