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Aphrodites Berenikes Polis
Arsinoites (Fayum), meris of Herakleides (00a)
| GEO ID: | 232 |
| Name: | Aphrodites Berenikes Polis |
| Variant names: | Aphrodites Berenikes Polis (Aphroditopolis - Aphrodites Polis - Aphrodito) |
| Greek name: | Ἀφροδίτης Βερενίκης Πόλις |
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| Country: | Egypt |
| Provincia: | Aegyptus |
| Region: | 00 |
| Nome: | a |
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| Status: | village: kome; polis; chorion |
| Location: | near 00a Boubastos (463), 00a? Letous Polis (1244), 00a Psenhyris (1957), 00a Alabanthis (97), 00a Arabon Kome (285), 00a Arsinoe (326), 00a Neilou Polis (1433), 00a Sebennytos (2103) |
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| Repertoria: | Dizionario I 1, p. 18 (s.v. Ad...oui); I 2, p. 297-301 (4 a-b & d-e); p. 446 (4) (ter); Suppl. 1, p. 71-72 (4 b & d-e); Suppl. 2, p. 31 (4 a & d); Suppl. 3, p. 22 (4 a-b & d); Suppl. 4, p. 43 (4 e); Suppl. 5, p. 11; p. 20 (4 a); p. 21 (2); P. Tebt. 2 |
| Bibliography: | Cruz-Uribe Beihefte SAK 4, 1990, p. 213-218; Rübsam, Götter und Kulte in Faijum, 1974, p. 53; Koskenniemi, Tyche 9 (1994), p. 58; Zahariade, LGRC, 1998, col. 633 no. 4; Mueller, Settlements of the Ptolemies, 2006, p. 204 no. 32 |
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| Notes: | attested from the 3rd century BC till the 7th century AD; new reading '[metr]op(olis)' in PSI 8 893, 14; obsolete reading: Ad...oui |