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Egypt - 8th Upper Egyptian nome, Thinites (Abydos, Girga) (U08)The region ca. 250 BC - provincia: AegyptusThe provincia ca. 200 AD - located on the western Nile bank
26.185099,31.917622 (Lat,Long)
Links: Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire, Pleiades, ToposText, Wikipedia
Status: city: polis, civitas
Greek name(s): Ἀβυδος
Latin name(s): Abydus - Aboedos - Abubis - Abidos
Egyptian name(s): ȝbḏw (Ỉbd - Ỉbt - ȝbt) - pȝ tš n Ỉbt?
Coptic name(s): ⲉⲃⲱⲧ - ⲁⲃⲱⲧ
Ethnic(s): Abydenaios - Abydenos
Variants: Abydos (Abytos - Abidos - Abydoi - Abide) - sites including Memnonion; Osirieion; El-Araba el-Madfuna; Kom el-Sultan; Umm el-Qa'ab
Repertoria: Dizionario I 1, p. 6 (bis); p. 6-7; Suppl. 1, p. 3 (bis); Gauthier, Dictionnaire I, 1925, p. 3-4; Timm, p. 591-600
Biblio: Wb 1, 1926, p. 9; Gardiner, AEO 2, 1947, p. 36*; Erichsen, Glossar, 1954, p. 4; p. 27; p. 348; Kemp, LÄ I, 1975, col. 28-41; CDD ȝ, 2002, p. 23; CDD I, 2011, p. 87-89
Map: Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 108-109 (Abydos / Abedju / Kom el-Sultan / el-‛Araba el-Madfuna / Umm el Qa‛ab); Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 116 [a] (Abydos); Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 116 [b] (Abydos); Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 77 F4 (Abydos / Ebot); JEA 11 (1925), p. 138 pl. 11 (Abydos); NeHet 6 (2018), p. 32 fig. 1 (Abydos)
Note: see also the attestations for U08 Memnonion (11812) and U08 Osirieion (11813); new reading in St. Abdalla 171, 2 (no toponym; cf. DBL, 2005, p. 544)
TM GeoRef | Publication | Attestation | Material | Language | Date | Provenance |
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248716 | O. Trim. 3 859 (forthcoming), 5 | n spȝ.t ȝbḏwcontext: 'Hori son of Onnophris from (the) district (of) Abydos' | pottery | Hieratic | BC16 - BC11 | Egypt, Western desert, Oasis Magna - Trimithis (Amheida) [found & written] |
23103 | Chronique d‘Égypte (CdE) 44 (1969), p. 214-221, 1 | ȝbḏw? | stone (limestone) | Hieroglyphic | BC07 - BC04 | Egypt, U08 - Abydos (?) [found & written] |
35550 | P. Choix 18, 2 [c] | ȝbtcontext: '(the) prophet of Amon, prince of Thebes, chief of (the) prophets of This-Abydos (sc. Abydos of the Thinites)' → biblio: Černý, Studies Griffith, 1931, p. 52 n. 18 | papyrus | Abnormal Hieratic | BC07 | Egypt, U04b - Thebes [found & written] |
35551 | P. Choix 18, 3 | ȝbtcontext: 'Osiris, foremost of the westerners, lord of Abydos' | papyrus | Abnormal Hieratic | BC07 | Egypt, U04b - Thebes [found & written] |
35553 | P. Choix 18, 4 [b] | ȝbtcontext: '(the) prophet of Amonrasonter, chief of (the) prophets of This-Abydos (sc. Abydos of the Thinites)' → biblio: Černý, Studies Griffith, 1931, p. 52 n. 18 | papyrus | Abnormal Hieratic | BC07 | Egypt, U04b - Thebes [found & written] |
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