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Boubastos
18th Lower Egyptian nome, Boubastites (Tell Basta) (L18)

GEO ID: 462
Name: Boubastos
Variant names: Boubastos (Boubastis) - Per-Bastet ('House (of) Bastet') - Pi-Beseth - Tell Basta - Zagazig
Greek name: Βουβαστος - Βουβαστις
Latin name: Bubastis
Egyptian name: Pr-Bȝst.t
Coptic name: ⲡⲟⲩⲃⲁⲥϯ - ⲡⲟⲩⲁⲥϯ
Other: Pi-Beseth (Hebrew)
Modern name: Tell Basta
Ethnic: Boubastites (Boubastitis) - Boubastiakos
Country: Egypt
Provincia: Aegyptus
Region: L
Nome: 18
Administrative situation:
Status: city: polis; metropolis
Location: Tell Basta lies near Zagazig
Identification: L? Binnastas (3831)?; cf. also L18 Boubastites (11742), L Boubastikos Potamos (3862)
Repertoria: Dizionario II, p. 59 (ter); p. 59-60 (1)Suppl. 1, p. 83; p. 83 (1); Suppl. 2, p. 37 (1); p. 37 (1); Suppl. 3, p. 27; p. 27 (1); Suppl. 5, p. 24; Gauthier, Dictionnaire II, 1925, p. 75; Timm, p. 362-365
Bibliography: Wb 1, 1926, p. 423; Vandorpe, Geografische elementen, 1988, p. 70 no. 1; Guermeur, Les cultes d'Amon, 2005, p. 246-248; CDD P, 2010, p. 89-90
Maps: Baines / Malek, Atlas, 2002, p. 167
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