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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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