Aphrodites

TM Geo 235

Egypt - Eastern desert (Eastern desert)The region ca. 250 BC - provincia: AegyptusThe provincia ca. 200 AD - located in the Wadi Menih el-Heir (TM Geo 3548), along the road between U05 Koptos (Qift) (TM Geo 1159) and Berenike (Bender el-Kebir) (TM Geo 416)
25.6058972,33.623553 (Lat,Long)

Gods in this toponym: Aphrodite (TM God 104)

Links: Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire, EDH, Pleiades, Talbert Peutinger

Status: camp: praesidium; city: civitas?

Greek name(s): Ἀφροδίτης
Latin name(s): Afrodito - Affrodites - Afroditis
Variants: Aphrodites (*Aphroditopolis) - Aphrodites Orous ('(Praesidium) of Aphrodites of (the) desert')

Repertoria: Dizionario I 2, p. 302 (6); Suppl. 5, p. 21 (6)
Biblio: RE s.v. Aphroditopolis no. 6; Zahariade, LGRC, 1998, col. 633-634 no. 6; JRA 14 (2001), p. 327; O. Did., 2012, p. 21-22; Cuvigny, Le désert oriental d'Égypte, 2018, § 105-173
Map: Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 80 D2 (Aphrodites (Oros)); Bengtson, Weltatlas, 1978(6), pl. 36 a D5 (Aphrodites Polis); BIFAO 95 (1995), p. 209 fig. 1 (Bīr-Manīḥ (Afrodito)); Brun e.a. (ed.), Le désert oriental d'Égypte [Cuvigny], 2018, § 1 fig. 1 inset (Aphroditès orous); BSOAS 16 (1954), p. 212 (Afrodito); Cuvigny (ed.), La route de Myos Hormos, 2003, p. 33 fig. 1 (wâdî Minayh al-Hyr (Aphroditè)); Cuvigny (ed.), La route de Myos Hormos, 2003, p. 663 (Aphroditès); d'Anville, Aegyptus antiqua, 1765 (Aphrodito); Jacotin, Carte geographique de l'Égypte, 1818, map 3 (Aphrodito); JEA 11 (1925), p. 138 pl. 11 (Aphrodito (Menih)); JEA 38 (1952), p. 95 fig. 1 (Afrodito); JEA 39 (1953), p. 95 Vo (Afrodito); Jomard, Carte itinéraire, 1820 (Aphrodito); Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1892), p. 812 (Aphrodites); Pococke, A description of the East, 1743, I, p. 1 (Aphrodito); Sidebotham / Gates-Foster (ed.), Survey of the desert roads, 2019, p. vi (Aphrodito); Tabula Imperii Romani. Coptos, 1958 (Afrodito / W. Menīh el-Ḥeir)
Note: obsolete identfication: Daghbag (5306)