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Moeris

TM Geo 1381

Egypt - Arsinoites (Fayum), city area of Arsinoe (00d) - provincia: Aegyptus - located near, later in 00d Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum) (TM Geo 327)

Status: village; quarter: amphodon

Greek name(s): Μοηρις - Μοηρεως ἄμφοδον
Egyptian name(s): Mȝ-wr (Mr-wr - Mw-wr)
Ethnic(s): Moerites
Variants: Moeris (Meyris - Myris - Moiris) ('Great canal'?) - Moereos Amphodon

Repertoria: Dizionario III, p. 277; p. 289; p. 289-290; p. 290; p. 303; Suppl. 1, p. 199; Suppl. 2, p. 124 (bis); Suppl. 3, p. 75; Suppl. 4, p. 32-33; p. 87-88; Suppl. 5, p. 19; p. 62; P. Tebt. 2, 1907, p. 389; p. 390
Biblio: Wessely, Arsinoe, 1903, p. 31-32; p. 50; P. Tebt. Tait, 1977, p. 29-30; Youtie, ZPE 25 (1977), p. 142-143; Daris, Aegyptus 61 (1981), p. 148; Vandorpe, Geografische elementen, 1988, p. 112-113; P. Hawara, 1998, p. 59-60 n. 15; Alston, The city in Roman and Byzantine Egypt, 2002, p. 384-385; Vandorpe, AfP 50 (2004), p. 74-78; Worp, Papyrology and the history of early Islamic Egypt, 2004, p. 243; Daris, ZPE 157 (2006), p. 145; CDD M, 2010, p. 10-12; Abgadiyat 8 (2013), p. 33; CDD S, 2013, p. 156; Widmer, Résurrection d’Osiris, 2015, p. 57
Note: in the 1st century AD the village Moeris becomes an amphodon of 00d Arsinoe; the identification with 00a? Gurob (720) is very doubtful

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2 texts found or written in Moeris
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TM id	Publication	Status	Material	Language	Date	Provenance

2529	SB 18 13160	[place of writing & destination]	papyrus	Greek	BC03	Egypt, 00d - Moeris [place of writing & destination] Egypt, 00 - Arsinoites (Fayum) [found]
5369	P. Tebt. 3 781	[written]	papyrus	Greek	BC02	Egypt, 00d - Moeris [written] Egypt, 00d - Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum) (?) [destination] Egypt, 00c - Tebtynis (Umm el-Baragat) [found]