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Tentyris (Dendera)
TM Geo 2312
Egypt - 6th Upper Egyptian nome, Tentyrites (Dendera) (U06)The region ca. 250 BC - provincia: AegyptusThe provincia ca. 200 AD - located on the western Nile bank - same as U Per-Cha (TM Geo 11736)?; cf. also U06 Tentyrites (TM Geo 2997)
26.141775,32.6700972222 (Lat,Long)
Gods in this toponym: Hathor (TM God 27), Ptah (TM God 71)
Links: Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire, EDH, Pleiades, Talbert Peutinger, ToposText, Wikipedia
Status: city: polis; civitas; metropolis
Greek name(s): Τεντυρις - Τεντυρα
Latin name(s): Tentyra - Tentira
Egyptian name(s): Ỉwn.t (Ỉwn) - Ỉwn.t-tȝ-nṯr.t - Ỉwn.t-n-pȝ-nṯr - Ỉwn.t-n-Ptḥ - Ỉwn.t-n-Nw.t - Tȝ-bẖn-n-Ḥw.t-Ḥr?
Coptic name(s): ⲧⲉⲛⲧⲱⲣⲓ - ⲛⲓⲧⲛⲧⲱⲣⲉ - ⲛⲓⲧⲉⲛⲧⲱⲣⲓ
Ethnic(s): Tentyrites - Tenturitanus - Tentyriticus
Modern name(s): Dendera
Variants: Tentyris (Tentyra - Tantere) - Iounet - Iounet-t-netjeret ('Iounet (of) the goddess (sc. Hathor)') - T-bechen-n-Hathor ('The tower / pylon of Hathor') (?) - Dendera (Dendara)
Repertoria: Dizionario IV, p. 391 (1); p. 391 (1-2); Suppl. 1, p. 242 (2); Suppl. 2, p. 212 (1); p. 212 (2); Suppl. 3, p. 148 (1); Suppl. 4, p. 130 (1); p. 130 (2); Gauthier, Dictionnaire I, 1925, p. 57; Timm, p. 543-548
Biblio: Wb 1, 1926, p. 54; Wb 2, 1927, p. 362; Gardiner, AEO 2, 1947, p. 30*; Erichsen, Glossar, 1954, p. 24; Daumas, LÄ I, 1975, col. 1060-1063; Smith, Enchoria 16 (1988), p. 81; Vandorpe, Geografische elementen, 1988, p. 19-20; CDD N, 2004, p. 150; CDD I, 2011, p. 66-68
Map: Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 108-109 (Dendara / Tentyris / Iunet, Tantere); Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 108-109 (Dendara); Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 112 (Dendara); Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 64 (Dendara); Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 78 B5 (Tentyra); Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 80 B1 (Tentyra); Bengtson, Weltatlas, 1978(6), pl. 36 a D4 (Tentyra); Cuvigny (ed.), La route de Myos Hormos, 2003, p. 663 (Tentyra); Egyptian series 1:50,000, map NG 36 J3a, 1990 (Dandarah); Egyptian series 1:50,000, map NG 36 J3a, 1990 (Temple of Dandarah); Floyer, Eastern Desert of Egypt, 1887 (Denderah); Journal of the Royal Geographical Society 2 (1832), p. 28 no. 2 (Denderah); Rifaud, Carte du cours du Nil, 1830 (Denderah); Rifaud, Carte du cours du Nil, 1830 inset (Danderah); Sidebotham / Gates-Foster (ed.), Survey of the desert roads, 2019, p. vi (Dendera); Tabula Imperii Romani. Coptos, 1958 (Tentyra / Dendera)
