Historical place profile

Hermonthis

Modern Armant, an important town of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom that was enlarged during the Eighteenth Dynasty and continued to thrive through the Ptolemaic, Roman, and Coptic periods.

Record details
Research ID
catholon:place:pleiades:786036
Catalogue ID
pleiades:786036
Place type
settlement, settlement-modern
Coordinates
25.619880, 32.543050
Precision
precise
Locator semantics
representative_point_not_boundary

Historical description

Modern Armant, an important town of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom that was enlarged during the Eighteenth Dynasty and continued to thrive through the Ptolemaic, Roman, and Coptic periods.

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 80 B2 Hermonthis

Source and reuse

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Research path

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