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Blemmyes

TM Geo 444

Egypt - Eastern desert (Eastern desert) - provincia: Aegyptus - according to the coordinates in Ptolemaios also in (modern) Ethiopia (admin.) - same as Bega (TM Geo 3863)?


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Status: people: ethnos


Greek name(s): Βλέμμυες
Latin name(s): Blemmyes
Egyptian name(s): Blhm (Brhm)
Coptic name(s): ⲃⲗϩⲙⲟⲩ
Ethnic(s): Blemmys - Blhm (Brhm)
Variants: Blemmyes (Blemyes)


Repertoria: Dizionario II, p. 53; Suppl. 3, p. 26
Biblio: Griffith, PSBA 31 (1909), p. 291; Erichsen, Lesestücke II.2, 1940, p. 197; Erichsen, Glossar, 1954, p. 120; Černý, BIFAO 57 (1958), p. 203-205; Vycichl, Kush 6 (1958), p. 179; Zaborski, BzS (1989), p. 169-177; Fontes Historiae Nubiorum 3, 1998, p. 1196-1216 & passim; PP X, 2002, p. 308; CDD B, 2002, p. 64; p. 71-72; Cuvigny, Les vaisseaux du désert et des steppes, 2020, p. 171-180 §10-17; Cuvigny e.a., O. Blemmyes, 2002
Map: Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 54 (Blemmye tribes); Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 81 D2 (Blemmyes); Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 82 E2-F3 (Blemmyes)
Note: the names Trogodytai (2481) and Blemmyes (444) probably refer to (tribes of) the same people; new reading in P. Ryl. Vittmann p. 116-202, col. 5, 5 (no toponym; cf. Chauveau, Bibl. Orient. 61 (2004), p. 26)


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