Sais

settlement · 750 BC – 2100 AD

Sais was an ancient Egyptian town located in the Western Nile Delta on the Canopic branch of the Nile River. It served as the provincial capital of Sap-Meh, the fifth nome of Lower Egypt, and became a capital during the Twenty-fourth Dynasty (ca. 732–720 BC) as well as during the Late Period. Herodotus claimed that Osiris was buried at Sais. Other Greek authors, including Plato, maintained a connection between Sais and the goddess Athena.

Coordinates

30.96715, 30.77437

Also known as

Sa el-Hagar (ara), Sai (cop), Sau (egy), Saïs (fr), Saïs (fr), Sin (heb), zAw (egy), Σάι (grc), Σάϊς (grc), صا الحجر (ara), صا الحجر (arz), Ṣa el-Ḥagar, Şā al Ḩajar, Ṣân el-Ḥagar (arz), Ⲥⲁⲓ (cop), 塞易斯 (zho)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• iDAI.gazetteer (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut) · CC BY
  iDAI.gazetteer, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (CC BY)
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)

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