Arsinoites (Fayum)

TM Geo 332

Egypt - Arsinoites (Fayum) (00)The region ca. 250 BC - provincia: AegyptusThe provincia ca. 200 AD - cf. also 00d Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum) (TM Geo 327); 00 Limne (Fayum) (TM Geo 1255)

Gods in this toponym: Sobek (TM God 82)

Links: EDH, EDH [2], EDH [3], Pleiades, Wikipedia

Status: district: nomos; tesh; pagarchia; kurat

Greek name(s): Ἀρσινοίτης - Σουχου νόμος
Latin name(s): Arsinoites - Crocodilopolites
Egyptian name(s): pȝ tš n ȝrsynȝ
Ethnic(s): Arsinoites (Arsinoitis) - Arsinoitikos
Modern name(s): Fayum
Variants: Arsinoites - Krokodilopolites - Souchou Nomos ('nomos of (the god) Souchos / Sobek') - Fayum

Biblio: Vandorpe, Geografische elementen, 1988, p. 33; Kruit / Worp, AfP 46 (2000), p. 98-99; CDD T, 2012, p. 298; Eller, Nomes et toparchies (BdE 179), 2022, p. 311-324
Map: Arrowsmith, Map of Upper Egypt, 1807 (Faioum); Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 131 (Faiyum); Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 53 [b] (Faiyum); Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 75 D2 (N. Arsinoites / Krokodeilopolites); Davoli, L'archeologia urbana nel Fayyum, 1998, p. 367 (El-Fayyum); Falivene, Herakleopolite nome, 1998, pl. (Arsinoites); JJP 36 (2006), p. 18 (Arsinoites); LÄ VII, 1992, map 2 (Fajjum); Montevecchi, La papirologia, 1973, p. 184 (ΑΡΣΙΝΟΙΤΗΣ ΝΟΜΟΣ (Fayûm)); P. L. Bat. 21, 1981, pl. 4 (Ἀρσινοίτης νομός); P. Tebt. 2, 1907, pl. 3 (Arsinoite Nome)
Note: the name Arsinoites is for the first time attested in BC 259; the ethnicon Arsinoites refers to the nomos, not to the city of Arsinoe (a name only used from the Roman period on); new reading in P. Dime 3 9 (= SB 18 13579), Gr. 2 (no toponym); new reading in P. Bodl. 1 15, 10 (no toponym; cf. BL 12, p. 40)