L08 - Heroopolis
Strabon, Geographia
Passus 16, 4, 05 [c] (C 769): Ἡρώων πόλις
| Date: | AD 15 - 23 about? |
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| Status: | polis + gen. |
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| Details: | 'As one sails from Heroopolis along the Troglodytic country, one comes to a city Philotera, which was named after the sister of the second Ptolemaios, having been founded by Satyros, who had been sent for the purpose of investigating the Troglodytic country and the hunting of elephants. Then to another city, Arsinoe.' |
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