| GEO ID: |
269 |
| Name: |
Apollonopolis |
| Variant names: |
Apollonopolis (Apollonos Polis - Apollinopolis) Megale (Magna) / Ano (Superior) - Apollonias - Behdet - Bachthis - Polis Phoibou - Mesen - Edfu - sites including the necropolis Hassaya (Hassaia, Hissaya) |
| Greek name: |
Ἀπόλλωνος Πόλις Μεγάλη - Βαχθις - Πόλις Φοίβου |
| Latin name: |
Apollinis - Apollonos Superiore |
| Egyptian name: |
Ḏbȝ (Tbȝ - Dbȝ) - Bḥdt (Bḥt) - Msn |
| Coptic name: |
ⲉⲧⲃⲟ - ⲧⲃⲟ - ⲑⲃⲱ |
| Other: |
|
| Modern name: |
Edfu |
| Ethnic: |
Apollonopolites |
| Country: |
Egypt |
| Provincia: |
Aegyptus |
| Region: |
U |
| Nome: |
02 |
| Administrative situation: |
|
| Status: |
city: polis |
| Location: |
on the western Nile bank |
| Identification: |
cf. also U02 Apollonopolites (2717), U02 Contra Apollonopolis (Redesiya) (2633) |
| Repertoria: |
Dizionario I 2, p. 151 (3); p. 157; p. 157-159 (1); p. 160 (4); p. 161 (1); p. 161-169 (1); p. 440 (quater); p. 440 (5); Suppl. 1, p. 48-49 (1 & 4); 49-50 (1); Suppl. 2, p. 23 (1); p. 23 (1); Suppl. 3, p. 19 (1); Suppl. 4, p. 18 (1); p. 18 (1); Suppl |
| Bibliography: |
Wb 1, 1926, p. 470; Erichsen, Lesestücke II.2, 1940, p. 202; Erichsen, Glossar, 1954, p. 121; p. 316; p. 621-622; Vernus, LÄ VI, 1986, col. 323-331; Wilson, Ptolemaic lexikon, 1997, p. 326; CDD Ḏ, 2001, p. 29; CDD B, 2002, p. 2; p. 76-77; p. 99; Clarysse, Fayyum meeting (Pap. Lup. 14), 2005, p. 69; CDD Ḥ, 2009, p. 21; p. 179-180 |
| Maps: |
Baines / Malek, Atlas, 2002, p. 71 |
| Notes: |
new reading in SB 24 15945, 2 (personal name, no toponym; cf. Reiter, AfP 48 (2002), p. 133) |
