Aphroditopolis or Aphrodites Polis (Ancient Greek: Ἀφροδίτης πόλις), meaning city of Aphrodite, is the Greek name of several places in ancient Egypt:
Aphroditopolis in the Antaiopolite Nome,[1] also called Aphrodito, ancient Per-Wadjet, now the village of Kom Ishqaw
Aphroditopolis in the Aphroditopolite Nome,[1] now the village of Atfih
Aphroditopolis in the Faiyum Oasis,[1] village attested between 3rd century BC and the 3rd century AD
Aphroditopolis in the Pathyrite Nome,[1] now the village of Gebelein
^ abcdKyriakos Savvopoulos, "Popular Divine Imagery in Hellenistic and Roman Alexandria. The Terracotta Figurines Collection of the Patriarchal Sacristy in Alexandria", The Annual of the British School at Athens114 (2019): 329n: "the 2nd Nome and its capital were named after Aphrodite ... in addition to another three towns".
ancient Egypt: Aphroditopolis in the Antaiopolite Nome, also called Aphrodito, ancient Per-Wadjet, now the village of Kom Ishqaw Aphroditopolis in the Aphroditopolite...
was Tjebu. During the Ptolemaic period, the nome's capital city was Aphroditopolis. Several governors of the province are known. These include Kaikhenet...
Ancient Greek: Παθυρις Pathuris or Ἀφροδιτόπολις Aphroditópolis; Latin: Pathyris or Aphroditopolis) was a town in Egypt. It is located on the Nile, about...
Valerius, and Cl. for Claudius. Aphrodito was a pagus in the nome of Aphroditopolis; in Coptic Jkow, in Arabic Kom Ishkaw. The importance attached to the...
ancient city of Aphroditopolis. Other theories have proposed that the collection was found near the Fayum instead of Aphroditopolis, or that the location...
Kingdom; capital of its nome; foremost religious center Per-Hathor (Aphroditopolis) earlier than 3000 BC 4th Hathor Gebelein Inerty, Pathyris, Naga el-Gherira...
(أطفيح) is derived. The city was also known in Greco-Roman Egypt as Aphroditopolis. Atfih is located in the area of ancient Maten, Upper Egypt's northernmost...
village on the east bank of the Nile in the area of Aṭfiḥ, ancient Aphroditopolis.": 105 However, the archaeologists who bought the University of Michigan's...
Egypt, near the Egyptian Pyramids Busiris (Aphroditopolis), an ancient city of Egypt, southwest of Aphroditopolis Taposiris Magna (or Abusir or Busiris),...
Archbishopric, so probably the provincial capital Alphocranon (Helwan) Aphroditopolis (Atfih) Arsinoë in Arcadia (Faiyum) Cynopolis in Arcadia (El-Queis?...
Wife. In addition, she was a priestess of Hathor, Mistress of Tepihu (Aphroditopolis) and a priestess of Hathor of Iunyt (Dendera) as well as a priestess...
Daniel. The exact circumstances of the find are unclear, but the ancient Aphroditopolis is assumed to be the place where it was found. The scope was originally...
and they were Memphis, Heracleopolis, Crocodilopolis (later Arsinoe), Aphroditopolis, Oxyrhynchos, Cynopolis and Hermopolis. 6th of October (city) Beni Suef...
to Strabo's Geographica, was located between Hermonthis (Armant) and Aphroditopolis (Gebelein). It appears most likely that Sumenu was the toponym where...
metropolitan bishop of the Holy Metropolis of Tahta, Juhayna and Gabalein (Aphroditopolis & Hispis (Pathyris)) 13) Markos (Mark), metropolitan bishop of the Holy...
the Great conquered Egypt in 332 B.C., it was given the Greek name "Aphroditopolis" (“The City of Aphrodite”) and was made the capital city of its nome...
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