PACHNAMU´NIS
PACHNAMU´NIS (
Παχναμουνίς, or
Παχνευμουνίς Ptol. 4.5.50;
Παχνεμόης, Hierocles, p. 724), the principal town of the Sebennytic nome in the Aegyptian Delta, lat. 31° 6′ N.
It stood on the eastern shore of the Lake Butos, and very near the modern, village of
Handahur. (Champollion,
l'Egypte, vol. ii. p. 206.)
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