APHRODITO´POLIS
APHRODITO´POLIS,
APHRODITO, VENERIS OPPIDUM (
Ἀφροδίτης πόλις, Ἀφροδιτόπολις, Ἀφροδίτω: Eth.
Ἀφροδιτοπολίτης), the name of several cities in Egypt. I.
In Lower Egypt. 1. [ATARBECHIS.] 2.
A town of the Nomos Leontopolites. (
Strab. xvii. p.802.)--II.
In the Heptanomis, or Middle Egypt. 3. AFRODITO (
Itin. Ant. p. 168:
Ἀφροδίτω, Hieroc. p. 730,
Atfyeh, mounds, but no Ru.), a considerable city on the E. side of the Nile; capital of the Nomos Aphroditopoltes. (
Strab. xvii. p.809; Ptol.)
It was an episcopal see, down to the Arab conquest. Its coins are extant, of the reigns of Trajan and Hadrian, with the epigraph
ΑΦΠΟΔΕΙΤΟΠΟΛΙ. (Rasche, s. v.)--3.
In Upper Egypt, or the Thebais. 4. (
Tachta) on the W. side of the Nile, but at some distance from the river, below Ptolemais and Panopolis; capital of the Nomos Aphroditopolites (
Plin. Nat. 5.9,
10. s. 11,
Veneris iterum, to distinguish it from No. 5;
Strab. xvii. p.813; Agatharch.
de Rub. Mar. p. 22; Prokesch,
Erinnerungen, vol. i. p. 152.) 5. (
Deir, Ru.), on the W. side of the Nile, much higher up than the former, and, like it, a little distance from the river; in the Nomos Hermonthites, between Thebes and Apollonopolis Magna; and a little NW. of Latopolis. (
Plin. Nat. 5.10. s. 11.)
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