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Hesperis (Benghazi)

TM Geo 831

Libya (Cyrenaica) - provincia: Cyrenaica - located a city of the Pentapolis (TM Geo 6482)
32.12452,20.06425 (Lat,Long)


Links: Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire, Heritage Gazetteer of Libya, Nomisma, Pleiades, Pleiades [2], Talbert Peutinger, ToposText, Wikipedia, Wikipedia [2]


Status: city: polis


Greek name(s): Ἑσπερίς - Βερενίκη
Latin name(s): Berenice - Berenicide - Beronice - Hesperidae
Ethnic(s): Hesperites - Berenikeus (aph’ Hesperidon)
Modern name(s): Benghazi
Variants: Hesperis - Hesperides - Euhesperis - Euhesperides - Euesperides - Berenike (Berenicis) - Benghazi (Bengazi - Bengasi)


Repertoria: Dizionario II, p. 180; Suppl. 1, p. 115
Biblio: RE s.v. Berenike 8; PP X, 2002, p. 39; p. 73-74; p. 317; Mueller, Settlements of the Ptolemies, 2006, p. 203 no. 26
Map: Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 54 (Berenike [Cyrenaica]); Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 38 B1 (Berenice & Euesperides)
Note: Hesperis was renamed Berenike, after the wife of Ptolemaios III


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43325I. Syr. 162 bis, 6 - 7Ἱσπερίτηςstone Greek BC04 - BC01 Egypt, U04b - Memnoneia - Djeme (Thebes west), Valley of the Kings [find place, place of writing & preservation]
47298SB 5 8120, 1Ἑσπερ̣ί̣τηςstone (limestone) Greek BC04 - BC01 Egypt, L00 - Alexandria, Hadra [found & written]
46566SB 1 598, 2Βερενικεὺς ἀφʼ Ἑσπερίδωνstone Greek BC03 Egypt, L00 - Alexandria [found & written]
240475IG XII.4.5 3987, 1[Β]ερεν[ικέα]stone Greek BC03 Greece, Sporades - Kalymna [found & written]
69303P. Hamb. 2 187, 1Ἑσπερείτης τ̣ῆ̣ς̣ ἐπιγονῆςpapyrus Demotic / Greek BC03 Egypt, U19 - Tholthis [Kato] (Talt) (?) [written]
Egypt, U19 - Oxyrynchites (?) [found]
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