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Herakleopolis (Ihnasya el-Medina)

TM Geo 801

Egypt - 20th Upper Egyptian nome, Herakleopolites (Inhnasya el-Medina) (U20) - provincia: Aegyptus - in the Arcadia eparchia (admin.) - cf. also U20 Herakleopolites (TM Geo 2713)
29.08554,30.934549 (Lat,Long)

Gods in this toponym: Herakles (TM God 117 )

Links: 4CARE/DEChriM, Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire, Pleiades, Talbert Peutinger, ToposText, Wikipedia

2 ancient authors with this ethnic

Status: city: polis; urbs; civitas; oppidum; metropolis

Greek name(s): Ἡρακλέους πόλις Μεγάλη
Latin name(s): Heracleo - Herculis oppidum - Hanes
Egyptian name(s): Ḥw.t-nn-nsw (Nn-nsw - Ḥw.t-nsw)
Coptic name(s): ϩⲛⲏⲥ - ϩⲛⲉⲥ
Ethnic(s): Herakleopolites (Herakleopolitis) - Heracleopolitus - Herakleotes - Herakleotikos - Herakleiotikos
Modern name(s): Ihnasya el-Medina
Variants: Herakleopolis (Herakleous Polis) Megale (Magna) - Hout-nen-nesou (Henen-Nesou) ('House (of) (the) child (of) (the) king') - Hnes (Hanes) - Ihnasya el-Medina (Ahnas - Ehnes)

Repertoria: Dizionario I 2, p. 40; II, p. 217-219 (1-2); p. 219; p. 220-224 (1); p. 225 (2-3); p. 226 [1]; III, p. 395 (2); Suppl. 1, p. 128 (1-2); p. 128-129; p. 129 (2); Suppl. 2, p. 63 (1-2); p. 63; Suppl. 3, p. 44 (1-2); p. 44; p. 45 (2); Suppl. 4, p. 63-64 (1-2); p. 64; p. 64 (2); Suppl. 5, p. 38; p. 38 (1-2); p. 38 (1); p. 38 (1-3); p. 39; Gauthier, Dictionnaire III, 1926, p. 93; IV, 1927, p. 83-84; Timm, p. 1161-1172; Falivene, Herakleopolite nome, 1998, p. xii-xiii
Biblio: Wb 2, 1927, p. 272; Gardiner, AEO 2, p. 113*-114* no. 389; Erichsen, Glossar, 1954, p. 220; p. 228; p. 285; Vandorpe, Geografische elementen, 1988, p. 134; CDD Ḥ, 2009, p. 26-27
Map: Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 121 (Ihnasya el-Medina / Herakleopolis Magna / Henen-nesut); Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 75 D2 (Herakleopolis); Falivene, Herakleopolite nome, 1998, pl. (ΗΡΑΚΛΕΟΥΣ ΠΟΛΙΣ / Ihnāsiya Al-Madīna); Pruneti, Ossirinchite, 1981, pl. inset (Eracleopoli)
Note: obsolete reading: Ḥw.t-stnj; new reading in ZPE 141 (2002), p. 187-189, l. 17 (no toponym; cf. P. Heid. Gr. 9, 2006, p. 43); new reading in P. Col. Zen. 1 5, 47 (no toponym; cf. P. Col. Zen. 2, 1940, p. 11)

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TM GeoRef	Publication	Attestation	Material	Language	Date	Provenance

32986	P. Cairo 3 50086 descr., descr.	Ḥw.t-nn-nsw?	papyrus	Demotic	BC07 - BC05	Egypt, L01 - Memphis, Saqqara [found & written]
36294	Short Texts 2 1047, 2 [a]	Ḥw.t-nn-nsw	wood	Demotic	BC07 - BC06	Egypt, L01 - Memphis, Saqqara [found & written]
246670	Ebeid, Demotic inscriptions of the sacred animals (Tuna el-Gebel 10) 5, I 2	pȝ rmṯ Ḥw.t-nn-nsw	pottery	Demotic	BC07 - BC03	Egypt, U15 - Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Tuna el-Gebel [found & written]
32505	Petrie, Meydum and Memphis (III) p. 43 & pl. 37, 44 + Mélanges Ola el-Aguizy (BdE 164) p. 444-448, 1	Ḥw.t-nn-nsw	papyrus	Demotic	BC06	Egypt, U20 - Herakleopolis (Ihnasya el-Medina) (?) [written] Egypt, L01 - Moithymis (Meidum) [found]
32528	Petrie, Meydum and Memphis (III) p. 43 & pl. 37, 44 + Mélanges Ola el-Aguizy (BdE 164) p. 444-448, 3	Ḥw.t-nn-nsw	papyrus	Demotic	BC06	Egypt, U20 - Herakleopolis (Ihnasya el-Medina) (?) [written] Egypt, L01 - Moithymis (Meidum) [found]
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