Pathyris/Aphroditopolis (settlement)

settlement · 6000 BC – 2000 AD

Pathyris/Aphroditopolis is known especially for its necropolis where material ranges in date from the Predynastic Period to the Middle Kingdom. In the 160s BC Ptolemy VI Philometor established a military outpost at the site that was destroyed in the first century BC.

Coordinates

25.36966, 32.47395

Also known as

Aphroditopolis, Aphroditēs Polis, Aphrodites Polis (grc), Aphroditēs polis, Dair al-Fāḫūrī, Dair al-Fakhuri, Deir el-Fakhuri, Deir el-Fakhoury, Dayr al-Fakhuri, Deyr el-Fakhuri (arb), Dēr al-Faḫūrī, Der al-Fakhuri, Der el-Fakhuri (ar), Dēr al-Fāḫūrī, Der al-Fakhuri, Der el-Fakhuri (ar), Hathorkapelle, Chapel of Hathor (de), Hathortempel, Temple of Hathor (de), No. 4 Village (en), Pathyris, Thomas Afia Village, Thomas Afeyah Village, Tomas WA Afeyah, Thomas Afiya Village, Thomas Afiyah Village (en), Wādī No. 6, Wadi No. 6 (arb), al-Gabalain, Gebelên, Gebelein, al-Gabalayn, el-Gebeleyn (arb), al-Gabalaīn, al-Ǧabalain, al-Jabalain, al-Jabalayn, el-Jabalein, el-Jabaleyn, Jabalên (arb), jnrtj, Inerty (egy), jnrwtj (egy), jwnjt-(mḥjt), jwnjt-mḥjt, jwnjt (egy), jwnt, Iunyt (egy), pr Ḥtḥr (egy), pr-Ḥwt-Ḥr (egy), pr-Ḥwt-ḥr (egy), Ḥagar Isnā, Hagar Isna, Hagir Esna, Hagar Esna (ar), Ḥaǧar Isnā, Hajar Isna (arb)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)

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