| GEO ID: |
237 |
| Name: |
Aphrodito |
| Variant names: |
Aphrodito (Aphrodites Polis - Aphrodites Kome) - Per-Wadjit (Pi-Edjo - 'House of (the goddess) Wadjit') - Kom Ishgau (Kom Ischqau - Kom Ishqaw) - sites including the Monastery of Apollon |
| Greek name: |
Ἀφροδιτώ - Ἀφροδίτης Πόλις |
| Latin name: |
Veneris |
| Egyptian name: |
Pr-Wȝḏy.t (Pr-Wt) |
| Coptic name: |
ϫⲕⲱⲟⲩ |
| Other: |
Ashqawh (Arabic) |
| Modern name: |
Kom Ishgau |
| Ethnic: |
Aphroditopolites |
| Country: |
Egypt |
| Provincia: |
Aegyptus |
| Region: |
U |
| Nome: |
10a |
| Administrative situation: |
in some periods the capital of a separate U10 Aphroditopolites |
| Status: |
village: kome; demi; city: metropolis |
| Location: |
on the western Nile bank opposite U10a Antaiopolis (188) |
| Identification: |
cf. also U10a Aphroditopolites (4226) |
| Repertoria: |
Dizionario I 2, p. 31 (s.v. Anatolike) (?); p. 287; p. 302-414 (7); p. 446 (7); Suppl. 1, p. 72 (7); p. 72 (2); Suppl. 2, p. 31 (7); Suppl. 3, p. 22-23 (7); Suppl. 4, p. 43 (7); Suppl. 5, p. 21 (7); Timm, p. 1438-1461 |
| Bibliography: |
Gardiner, AEO 2, 1947, p. 55*-62* no. 362; Zahariade, LGRC, 1998, col. 634 no. 7; Jasnow / Zauzich, Book of Thoth, 2005, p. 343; Marthot, Pap. Congr. XXVI (Geneva 2010), 2012, p. 487-489 |
| Maps: |
Baines / Malek, Atlas, 2002, p. 109 |
| Notes: |
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