Heracleopolis or Herakleopolis (Greek: Ἡρακλεόπολις, Herakleópolis) or Herakleiopolis (Ἡρακλειούπολις) may refer to:
Heracleopolis Magna in Upper Egypt (now a ruin)
Heracleopolis Parva or Sethroë in Lower Egypt, identified with the site of Tell Belim
Heracleopolis (Crete), town of ancient Crete
Heracleopolis, former name of modern Sulusaray[citation needed]
Heracleopolis (Pontus), town of ancient Pontus
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Heracleopolis or Herakleopolis (Greek: Ἡρακλεόπολις, Herakleópolis) or Herakleiopolis (Ἡρακλειούπολις) may refer to: Heracleopolis Magna in Upper Egypt...
Heracleopolis Magna (Greek: Μεγάλη Ἡρακλέους πόλις, Megálē Herakléous pólis), Heracleopolis (Ἡρακλεόπολις, Herakleópolis) or Herakleoupolis (Ἡρακλεούπολις)...
Ἁρσαφής) was an ancient ram deity whose cult was centered in ancient Heracleopolis Magna. He was identified with Ra and Osiris in ancient Egyptian religion...
divided between two competing power bases. One of the bases was at Heracleopolis in Lower Egypt, a city just south of the Faiyum region, and the other...
Anatolia was the sacrifice of the fawn to St. Athenogenes at Pedachthoe/Heracleopolis on July 17 (July 16). On that day the young animal and its mother passed...
Council of Nicaea, along with other Cretan prelates, Theodoros, bishop of Heracleopolis. The site of Heracleium is located near modern Heraklion. Ptolemy. The...
about 50 papyri documents in Ancient Greek, mostly from the city of Heracleopolis, and only a few papyri from Faiyum, written in the Demotic Egyptian...
PERF 558 is the oldest surviving Arabic papyrus, found in Heracleopolis in Egypt, and is also the oldest dated Arabic text using the Islamic era, dating...
Coptos, the Eighth Dynasty was eventually overthrown by the nomarchs of Heracleopolis Magna, who founded the Ninth Dynasty. The Eighth Dynasty is sometimes...
of the Nile, close to the Bahr Yussef canal. Ihnasya, also known as Heracleopolis, served as the capital of the Heracleopolite nome in Ancient Egyptian...
Nedjemankh, a high-ranking priest of the ram-headed god Heryshaf of Heracleopolis. Investigators determined that the artifact had been stolen in 2011...
conqueror of Setjet, which might have been in this case the city of Sethroë(Heracleopolis Parva). Royal Annals Of Ancient Egypt. Routledge. p. 190. ISBN 978-1-136-60247-4...
of Egypt was roughly divided between two competing for power bases: Heracleopolis in Lower Egypt and Thebes in Upper Egypt. These two kingdoms eventually...
architecture are known in particular from three of the mētropoleis – Heracleopolis Magna, Oxyrhynchus, and Hermopolis Magna – as well as from Antinoöpolis...
(or Spermeru) was a town in Ancient Egypt, located roughly between Heracleopolis to the north and Oxyrhynchus to the south in what was considered the...
the early Middle Ages known as Sebastopolis (Greek: Σεβαστούπολις) or Heracleopolis (Ἡρακλειούπολις), is a town in Tokat Province in the Black Sea region...
Pharaonic era to the Roman period, the area was home to the city of Heracleopolis, 10 miles west of the modern city. which also served as the capital...
to Sobekneferu. There is evidence that she had structures built in Heracleopolis Magna and added to the Pyramid of Amenemhat III in Hawara. She left...
epithet of the deceased. Nebkaure is a Pharaoh of the tenth dynasty of Heracleopolis, ca. 2050 BCE, during the First Intermediate Period. Ma'at is the ancient...
and Tenth Dynasties, consolidated Lower Egypt from their capital in Heracleopolis Magna. A rival line, the Eleventh Dynasty based at Thebes, reunited...
which was placed underground, gave rise to the river Nile. In the Heracleopolis version of the myth, an internal connection between the ocean and chaos...
the Ptah precinct in Memphis. An usurped Middle Kingdom statue from Heracleopolis depicts both Bintanath and her sister Meritamen, and a statue from Hermopolis...
an alliance with the powerful family of the Masters of Shipping from Heracleopolis, and by his 8th regnal year in 657 BCE, he was in full control of the...
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