Historical place profile
Heliopolis
Ancient Heliopolis was the capital of the 13th or Heliopolite Nome of Lower Egypt and served as a major religious center. The site is now located in Ayn Shams, a suburb of Cairo.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:727117
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:727117
- Place type
- monument, settlement
- Coordinates
- 30.129404, 31.307481
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Ancient Heliopolis was the capital of the 13th or Heliopolite Nome of Lower Egypt and served as a major religious center. The site is now located in Ayn Shams, a suburb of Cairo.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 74 E4 Heliopolis
Source and reuse
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Research path
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