Historical place profile
Pathyris/Aphroditopolis (settlement)
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.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:786084
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:786084
- Place type
- cemetery, settlement
- Coordinates
- 25.369659, 32.473946
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
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.
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 B3 Pathyris/Aphroditopolis
Source and reuse
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Research path
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