| GEO ID: |
816 |
| Name: |
Hermopolis |
| Variant names: |
Hermopolis (Hermou Polis / Hermoupolis / Hermupolis) Megale / Ano (Magna / Superior) - he Hermopoliton Polis - Chemenou (Zmoun - Shmoun) ('Eight-town') - El-Ashmunein - sites including Tuna el-Gebel; Kom Kusum; the Monastery of Epiphanios |
| Greek name: |
Ἑρμοῦ Πόλις Μεγάλη - Ἑρμοπολιτῶν Πόλις - Ζμουν |
| Latin name: |
Hermupolis Magna - Mercuri |
| Egyptian name: |
Ḫmnw |
| Coptic name: |
ϣⲙⲟⲩⲛ |
| Other: |
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| Modern name: |
El-Ashmunein |
| Ethnic: |
Hermopolites (Hermopolitis) - Hermoupolites - Hermeopolites - Hermopolitikos - Hermupolitanus |
| Country: |
Egypt |
| Provincia: |
Aegyptus |
| Region: |
U |
| Nome: |
15 |
| Administrative situation: |
the U15 Hermopolites incorporates the former U14 and U16; in the U Thebais |
| Status: |
city: polis; metropolis; civitas |
| Location: |
on the western Nile bank |
| Identification: |
Ounou (11169) / Ouni (11577)?; cf. also U15 Hermopolites (2720), U15 P-shi-aa-n-Hermopolis (11420) |
| Repertoria: |
Dizionario I 2, p. 187; II, p. 161-164 (1 & 3); p. 164; p. 165; p. 165-174 (3); Suppl. 1, p. 111-112 (1 & 3); p. 112; p. 113 (3); Suppl. 2, p. 54 (1 & 3); p. 54-55 (3); Suppl. 3, p. 37 (1 & 3); p. 37-38 (3); Suppl. 4, p. 57 (1 & 3); p. 57 (bis); p. 5 |
| Bibliography: |
WB 3, 1929, p. 283; Erichsen, Glossar, 1954, p. 360-361; Gardiner, AEO 2 (1947), p. 79*-81* no. 377; Kessler, LÄ II, 1977, col. 1137-1147; Litinas, AfP 41 (1995), p. 66-84; CDD Ḫ, 2006, p. 98-99; Drew-Bear, Pap. Congr. XXIII (Vienna 2001), 2007, p. 199-202; Malouta, Pap. Congr. XXVI (Geneva 2010), 2012, p. 463-469 |
| Maps: |
Drew-Bear, Hermopolite, 1979, map 2; Baines / Malek, Atlas, 2002, p. 121 |
| Notes: |
obsolete reading: Aramaiohermopolites; new reading in P. Amh. Gr. 2 155, 2-5 (no toponym; cf. BL 1, p. 432); new reading in Enchoria 25 (1999), p. 83-85, A, 3 & 17 (no toponym); new reading in Stud. Pal.(2) 3 201, 5 [a] (no toponym); new reading in P. Lips. 1 35, 5-6a (no toponym; cf. Mitthof, ZPE 139 (2002), p. 140; against Wilcken, AfP 3 (1903), p. 563 (BL 1, p. 206)) |
