Natho (Sahragt)

TM Geo 1422

Egypt - 11th Lower Egyptian nome, Leontopolites (Tell el-Muqdam) (L11)The region ca. 250 BC - provincia: AegyptusThe provincia ca. 200 AD - located ca. 8 km southwest of L11 Leontopolis (Tell el-Moqdam) - same as L Naithou (TM Geo 5855)? L Naiou-ta-hout-p-ini (TM Geo 10785)?
30.713246,31.266677 (Lat,Long)

Links: Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire, Pleiades

Status: city; district: nomos; tesh

Greek name(s): Ναθω - Ναθοω
Egyptian name(s): Nȝ-n-tȝ-ḥw.t (Na-tȝ-ḥw.t) - pȝ tš n Nȝy=w-ḥw.t.w
Coptic name(s): ⲥⲁϩⲣⲁϣⲧ
Modern name(s): Sahragt
Variants: Natho (Nathoo) - Nathu ('The people of the (funerary) temple') - Sahragt

Repertoria: Dizionario III, p. 315; p. 315-316; Gauthier, Dictionnaire IV, 1927, p. 45
Biblio: Spiegelberg, Sagenkreis Petubastis, 1910, p. 84* no. 569; AEO 2 (1947), p. 146*-149* no. 401; Erichsen, Glossar, 1954, p. 284; Helck, LÄ IV, 1982, col. 354-355 s.v. Natho; Vandorpe, Geografische elementen, 1988, p. 132; Hoffmann, Panzer des Inaros, 1996, p. 233-234 n. 1223; p. 440; Verreth, JAOS 119 (1999), p. 241; CDD N, 2004, p. 13; Jasnow / Zauzich, Book of Thoth, 2005, p. 351; CDD T, 2012, p. 34
Map: Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 74 E3 (Natho)
Note: Verreth argues that there is only one Natho referred to in the Assyrian and Greek sources, not two as has often been maintained; obsolete reading / identification: Tȝ-ḥw.t / L16 Thmouis (2405); obsolete reading in Short Texts 3 2100, 9 [illegible]