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TM Geo 1050
Egypt - Arsinoites (Fayum), meris of Herakleides (00a)The region ca. 250 BC - provincia: AegyptusThe provincia ca. 200 AD - cf. also 00a Drymos Kerkeeseos (TM Geo 56805)
Gods in this toponym: Isis (TM God 39)
Links: Pleiades
Status: village: kome, epoikion, chorion
Greek name(s): Κερκεησις - Περκεησις - Πελκεησις
Egyptian name(s): Pȝ-grg-n-Ỉs.t - Pȝy-grg-Ỉs.t
Coptic name(s): ⲡⲉⲗϭⲏⲉⲓϣ
Variants: Kerkeesis (Kerkesis - Perkeesis - Pelkeesis - Perkeeseos Epoikion - Pelkeeseos Chorion) ('The settlement of Isis')
Repertoria: Dizionario III, p. 99 (2); IV, p. 90 (s.v. Pelk( ) & Pelkeesy); p. 104 (1); Suppl. 2, p. 161 (1); Suppl. 3, p. 124 (1); Suppl. 4, p. 108 (1); Suppl. 5, p. 80 (?); p. 81 (1); Timm, p. 1884-1885; Wessely, Topographie, 1904, p. 121-122; P. Tebt. 2, 1907, p. 357; p. 394 (bis); Barrington Atlas, 2000, p. 1135 (pl. 75 unlocated)
Biblio: Peremans / Van 't Dack, Prosopographica (Stud. Hell. 9), 1953, p. 64-65; Derda, JJP 31 (2001), p. 20; Monson, P. Agri. Dem., 2012, p. 3
Note: Pelke(os) (immo Pelke(eseos)?) in P. Sijpesteijn 36, 89 is perhaps rather a personal name than a toponym