Tenis - Hakoris (Tehna)

TM Geo 2309

Egypt - 15th Upper Egyptian nome, Hermopolites (El-Ashmunein) (U15)The region ca. 250 BC - provincia: AegyptusThe provincia ca. 200 AD - in the U15 Mochites toparchia; according to Ptolemaios situated in the U17 Kynopolites (admin.) - located on the eastern Nile bank - same as U? Teenis (TM Geo 7581)? U17 [ ]os (TM Geo 9513)?
28.189047,30.771322 (Lat,Long)

Links: Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire, EDH, GeoNames, Pleiades, Talbert Peutinger

Status: village: kome, polis

Greek name(s): Τηνις - Ἁκωρις - Ἁκωρεως κώμη - Κροκοδίλων πόλις
Latin name(s): Acoris
Egyptian name(s): Tȝ-thn.t - *Dmỉ-n-Hgr
Coptic name(s): ⲧⲉϩⲛⲉ
Ethnic(s): Hakorites (Akorites) - Hachorites - Hakoritikos - Korkodilopolites (Krokodilopolites)
Modern name(s): Tehna
Variants: Tenis (Tanis) ('The peak') - Hakoris (Hachoris Akoris - Acoris - Hakoreos (Hakorios) Kome - 'Village of Hakoris / (the) Arab' (?)) - Krokodilopolis (Krokodilon Polis - Korkodilon) - Tehna (Tihna el-Gebel)

Repertoria: Dizionario I 1, p. x; p. 46-48; p. 48; I 2, p. 426; IV, p. 409-410; Suppl. 1, p. 17 (bis); p. 180 (3); p. 243; Suppl. 2, p. 10 (bis); p. 102 (3); p. 215; Suppl. 3, p. 12 (bis); p. 63; p. 64 (3); p. 149; Suppl. 4, p. 78 (2) (?); p. 131; Suppl. 5, p. 12; p. 99; Gauthier, Dictionnaire VI, 1929, p. 61; p. 97-98; Timm, p. 2662-2666; Drew-Bear, Hermopolite, 1979, p. 56; p. 76; p. 79; p. 148 (s.v. Koussai); p. 152 (s.v. Kro( ) Po( )); p. 265; p. 291; p. 291-296
Biblio: Gardiner, AEO 2, 1947, p. 93*; Drew-Bear, REA 83 (1981), p. 25-28; P. L. Bat. 22, 1982, p. 70-73; Worp, ZPE 53 (1983), p. 261-262; Gundlach, LÄ VI, 1986, col. 304-305; Vandorpe, Geografische elementen, 1988, p. 190-191 no. 2; Clarysse, Ancient Society 22 (1991), p. 239 (BL 10, p. 1); Litinas, AfP 40 (1994), p. 157 no. 3; Sheridan, P. Col. 9, 1998, p. 150; Mitthof, AfP 49 (2003), p. 208 no. 1; CDD T, 2012, p. 44; p. 272
Map: Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 121 (Tihna el-Gebel / Akoris); Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 75 D4 (Tenis he kai Hakoreos); Brun e.a. (ed.), Le désert oriental d'Égypte [Cuvigny], 2018, § 1 fig. 1 (Akôris); Drew-Bear, Hermopolite, 1979, map 1 (Ṭihna el Gebel / Τῆνις ἡ καὶ Ἁκώρεως)
Note: rather Hakoris (< Hgr) than Akoris; new reading in P. Col. 8 208 (= SB 5 8257), 5 & 10 (personal name; cf. BL 10, 1998, p. 41); new reading in ZPE 140 (2002), p. 155 no. 12 (= P. Akoris 12), 1 (no toponym); new reading in I. Alex. Imp. 95 (= SB 1 614), 3 (interpretation not clear); new reading in CIL IV 2629, 1 (interpretation not clear; cf. Drew-Bear, Hermopolite, 1979, p. 293-294)