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TM Geo 848
Egypt - 3rd Upper Egyptian nome, Latopolites (Esna, Kom el-Ahmar) (U03)The region ca. 250 BC - provincia: AegyptusThe provincia ca. 200 AD
25.097743,32.779728 (Lat,Long)
Links: Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire, Pleiades, ToposText, Wikipedia
Status: city: polis
Greek name(s): Ἱεράκων πόλις
Egyptian name(s): Nḫn (Mḫn)
Modern name(s): Kom el-Ahmar
Variants: Hierakopolis (Hierakon Polis / Hierakonpolis) - Nechen ('Landing place') - Kom el-Ahmar
Repertoria: Dizionario III, p. 21 (1); Gauthier, Dictionnaire III, 1926, p. 99
Biblio: Wb 2, 1927, p. 310; Gardiner, AEO 2 (1947), p. 7*-8* no. 320; Adams, LÄ II, 1977, col. 1182-1186; Smith, Enchoria 16 (1988), p. 81; CDD N, 2004, p. 114-115
Map: Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 71 (Kom el-Ahmar / Hierakonpolis / Nekhen); Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 78 (Kom el-Ahmar); Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 80 B3 (Hierakonpolis); NeHet 6 (2018), p. 32 fig. 1 (Hierakonpolis); Rifaud, Carte du cours du Nil, 1830 (Hieraconpolis); Tabula Imperii Romani. Coptos, 1958 (Hieraconpolis / El-Kōm el-Aḥmar)
TM GeoRef | Publication | Attestation | Material | Language | Date | Provenance |
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243578 | Corpus of Ptolemaic inscriptions (CPI) 1 129, Captions lunette, 3, 1 [a] | Nḫncontext: 'Nechbet, the white one of Nechen / Hierakonpolis, the one with outstretched arm, mistress of Fekat.' | stone (limestone) | Demotic / Greek / Hieroglyphic | BC03 | Egypt, L03 - Momemphis (Kom el-Hisn) [found & written] |
243470 | Corpus of Ptolemaic inscriptions (CPI) 1 103, Captions, 2 | Nḫn{t}context: 'Nechbet, the white one of Nechen / Hierakonpolis, given life.' | stone | Greek / Hieroglyphic | BC02 | Egypt, L03? - Herakleion [found & written] |
110780 | Graff. Med. Habu 44, 6 [b] | Nḫncontext: 'first prophet of Horos of Hierakonpolis, king of the gods, the great god' → biblio: CDD N, 2004, p. 115 | stone | Demotic | BC01 | Egypt, U04b - Memnoneia - Djeme (Thebes west), Medinet Habu [find place, place of writing & preservation] |
110781 | Graff. Med. Habu 44, 13 | Nḫncontext: 'god's father (and) first prophet of Horos of Hierakonpolis, king of the gods' → biblio: CDD N, 2004, p. 115 | stone | Demotic | BC01 | Egypt, U04b - Memnoneia - Djeme (Thebes west), Medinet Habu [find place, place of writing & preservation] |
29506 | Enchoria 16 (1988), p. 79 no. 1, col. 1, 10 | Mḫncontext: in a list of Upper Egyptian toponyms → biblio: CDD N, 2004, p. 115 | pottery | Demotic | AD01 | Egypt, U01 - Elephantine (Geziret Assuan) (?) [found & written] |
98923 | SB 5 8046, 2 | Ἱεράκ(ων πόλεως)status: (polis) + gen. | pottery | Greek | AD01 | Egypt, U03 - Hierakopolis (Kom el-Ahmar) [found & written] |
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