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In 154. 1 στρατόπεδα is used for the Greek settlements on the Pelusiac Nile; the alien quarter in a town was of the nature of a camp. Aphrodite is called ξείνη to distinguish the Phoenician Astarte from the Aphrodite of Egypt (Hathor, cf. 41. 5 n.). H. is probably wrong in identifying her with Helen (cf. vi. 61 n.).

This temple of ‘Proteus’ was found by Petrie (1907-8). As H. says, it lies south of the Ptah τέμενος, and the only tablets of Hathor found were dug up here; this agrees with his statement as to the ‘foreign’ Aphrodite (E. E. F., 1908, p. 15). The temple seems also contemporary with the date that H. gives for the Trojan War, i. e. the thirteenth century B. C. (145. 4 n.).

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