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TM Geo 1196
Egypt - 17th Upper Egyptian nome, Kynopolites (El-Qeis) (U17)The region ca. 250 BC - provincia: AegyptusThe provincia ca. 200 AD - same as U17 Hardai (TM Geo 4989)?; U17 Sa-ka (TM Geo 60804)? U17 Euergetis (TM Geo 3389)?; cf. also U17 Kynopolites (TM Geo 3032), U17 Kynopolites Ano (TM Geo 8807), U17 Inpout (TM Geo 11517); for the necropolis, cf. U17 Sheikh Fadl (TM Geo 2818)
28.479495,30.782897 (Lat,Long)
Links: Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire, Pleiades, ToposText
Status: city: polis, metropolis
Greek name(s): Κυνῶν πόλις
Latin name(s): Canum
Egyptian name(s): Qs
Coptic name(s): ⲕⲁⲓⲥ - ⲕⲟⲉⲓⲥ
Ethnic(s): Kynopolites - Ano Kynopolites - Kynopolitikos
Modern name(s): El-Qeis
Variants: Kynopolis (Kynon Polis - Kynopoliton Polis - Ano Kynos - Ano Kynopoliton Polis) - El-Qeis (El-Quays - El-Qais - El-Qes - El-Kes)
Repertoria: Dizionario III, p. 164-165 (1-2); p. 165; p. 165-166 (1); Suppl. 1, p. 181 (1 & 1 a & 2); p. 181 (1); Suppl. 2, p. 103 (1-2); p. 103 (1); Suppl. 3, p. 64 (1-2); p. 64; p. 64 (1); Suppl. 4, p. 79 (1-2); Suppl. 5, p. 54 (1); p. 54 (1); Timm, p. 2132-2140; Falivene, Herakleopolite nome, 1998, p. 115-116
Biblio: Müller, Claudii Ptolemaei Geographia, I 2, 1901, p. 717; Erichsen, Glossar, 1954, p. 568; Gomaà, Mittelägypten, 1991, p. 73-75; p. 192-194; Litinas, AfP 40 (1994), p. 143-155; CDD K, 2001, p. 3; p. 37-38; Jasnow / Zauzich, Book of Thoth, 2005, p. 336; p. 345; CDD S, 2013, p. 38-39; Collombert, RdE 65 (2014), p. 1-27
Map: Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 121 (el-Qeis); Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 75 D4 (Kynopolis / Sko / Euergetis); Benaissa, Oxyrhynchite nome, 2012(2), p. 495 no. 4 (al Qais - Kynopolis(?))
Note: new reading in Jasnow / Zauzich, Book of Thoth p. 139-496 no. L01, col. 3, 19 (p. 348) (no toponym; cf. p. 493-494 (add. 18)); new reading in O. Narm. Gr. 1 103, 4 (= CdE 84 (2009), p. 208-210 no. 29; no toponym; against BL 10, p. 299)
TM id | Publication | Status | Material | Language | Date | Provenance |
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93558 | SB 1 1105 | [found & written] | stone (sandstone) | Greek | AD01 | Egypt, U17 - Kynopolis (El-Qeis) [found & written] |
94101 | SB 1 2243 | [find place, place of writing & preservation] | stone (sandstone) | Greek | AD01 | Egypt, U17 - Kynopolis (El-Qeis) [find place, place of writing & preservation] |
104491 | SB 8 10171 | [found & written] | stone (marble) | Greek | AD02 | Egypt, U17 - Kynopolis (El-Qeis) (?) [found & written] |
32550 | P. Oxy. 43 3147 | [written] | papyrus | Greek | AD04 | Egypt, U17 - Kynopolis (El-Qeis) [written] Egypt, U19 - Oxyrynchos (Bahnasa) [found] |
20368 | P. Oxy. 6 902 | [written] | papyrus | Greek | AD05 | Egypt, U17 - Kynopolis (El-Qeis) [written] Egypt, U19 - Oxyrynchos (Bahnasa) [found] |
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