Place names

Place Names


The following is a list of some place names used in the papyrus records. NB: Not all villages have been included.

Akhmim (Egypt)
Alexandria (Egypt)
Antinoite Nome
Antinoopolis
Aphrodito (Extinct city)
Apollonopolite Heptakomias Nome
Argos (Greece)
Arsinoe (Fayyum: Extinct city)
Arsinoite Nome use: Fayyum
Arsinoites use: Arsinoite Nome
Athribite Nome
Athribites use: Athribite Nome
Bacchias (Extinct city)
Bahnasa (Egypt)
Bakchias use: Bacchias
Chysis (Extinct city)
Constantinople
Crocodilopolis use: Arsinoe (Fayyum: Extinct city)
Cussite Nome
Cynopolite Nome
Eleusis (Egypt: Extinct city)
Fayyum (Egypt)
Heracleopolis Magna (Extinct city)
Heracleopolite Nome
Herakleopolites use: Heracleopolite Nome
Hermopolite Nome, Egypt
Hermopolis Magna (Extinct city)
Hermopolites use: Hermopolite Nome
Kellis (Extinct city)
Koussites use: Cussite Nome
Kynopolites use: Cynopolite Nome
Lycopolis (Egypt)
Memphis (Extinct city)
Memphite Nome
Memphites use: Memphite Nome
Meroe (Extinct city)
Mothite Nome
Mothites use: Mothite Nome
Oxyrhyncha (Extinct city)
Oxyrhynchite Nome
Oxyrhynchites use: Oxyrhynchite Nome
Oxyrhynchos use: Bahnasa (Egypt)
Panopolis use: Akhmim (Egypt)
Panopolite Nome
Panopolites use: Panopolite Nome
Pelousion (Extinct city)
Pharbaithite Nome
Pharbaithites use: Pharbaithite Nome
Prosopite Nome
Prosopites use: Prosopite Nome
Ptolemais Euergetis use: Arsinoe (Fayyum: Extinct city)
Rome
Samareia (Extinct city)
Schedia (Extinct city)
Tanyaithis (Extinct city)
Tebetny (Extinct city)
Tekmi (Extinct city)
Theadelphia (Extinct city)
Thebaid
Thinite Nome
Thinites use: Thinite Nome
Thmoinausiris (Extinct city)
Troy (Extinct city)


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Last updated by Peter van Minnen on 12/4/95