Boubastis

settlement · 750 BC – 640 AD

Boubastis (also known, in Arabic, as Tell Basta or, in Egyptian, as Per-Bast) was an ancient city in Egypt. It was located in the Nile Delta and served as the capital of the Am-Khent nome (the Bubastite nome), which was the 18th nome of Lower Egypt. It has been identified with the Biblical Pi-Beseth.

Coordinates

30.57238, 31.51109

Also known as

Bubasti, Bubastis, Bubástis, Per Bastet, Per-Baste, Pibeseth, Tall Bastah, Tall Basţah, Tel Basta, Tell Basta, Tell Basṭa, bu ba si ti si

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)
• GeoNames · CC BY 4.0
  © GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)

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