Busiris (
Greek: ) or Aphroditopolis was an ancient city of
Middle Egypt, in the
Aphroditopolite nome, on the west bank of the
Nile, southwest of Aphroditopolis (the modern city of
Atfih).
Location
Aphroditopolis is located 38 miles upstream from
Cairo, near the ruins of
Memphis, Egypt
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. All that remains of the city is mounds and ruins, which were excavated by
Matthew Flinders Petrie.
History
The city was known as ''Tpyhwt'' during
pharaonic times, ''Βούσιρις'' (Busiris) in
Hellenistic
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times, Aphroditopolis during the
Byzantine and
Roman Empires, Petpeh in
Coptic
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Afro-Asia
* Copts, an ethnoreligious group mainly in the area of modern Egypt but also in Sudan and Libya
* Coptic language, a Northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the 17th century
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, and since the Islamic conquest as
Atfih.
Under the
Ptolemaic dynasty
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was the seat of the
Aphroditopolis Nome and under the
Romans was also seat of former
bishopric, in
Roman province Arcadia Aegypti.
Known
bishops include:
* Chysaorius of Aphroditopolis
* Issac of Aphroditopolis fl.1183 (Latin)
* Jacob, Bishop of Aphroditopolis
fl.
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1020s
* Father Zosima el-Antony(Orthodox)
It remains today a vacant
titular see.
Aphroditopolis
at GCatholic.org.
References
* Richard Talbert, Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, (), p. 75.
Cities in ancient Egypt
Former populated places in Egypt
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