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Prosopitis. This island lay between the Canopic and the Sebennytic Niles and a canal, in the south of the Delta. The Greeks made their last stand there, after the suppression of the revolt of Inaros (Thuc. i. 109. 4).

Aphrodite corresponds to the Egyptian Hathor; her symbol also was a cow; her chief temple was at Denderah. Her name is probably found in ‘Atarbechis’, which may well be the Ἀφροδίτης πόλις of Strabo (802), in the Prosopitic nome.

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