Akoris (Extinct city)
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Name (Hebrew)
אקוריס (עיר קדומה)
Name (Latin)
Akoris (Extinct city)
Other forms of name
Acoris (Extinct city)
Tenis (Extinct city)
See Also From tracing topical name
Extinct cities Egypt
See Also From tracing place name
Egypt
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q741742
Library of congress:
sh 92003071
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: 91-131451: Preliminary report, eighth season of the excavations at the site of Akoris, Egypt, 1989.
- Baedecker's Egypt, 1984:p. 247 (Ancient town of Tenis, [or] Acoris)
- Baines. Atlas of ancient Egypt, 1980:p. 128 (Ancient town of Akoris)
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Wikipedia description:
Akoris (Ancient Greek: Ἄκωρις or Ἀκορίς); Egyptian: Mer-nefer(et) (Old and Middle Kingdoms), Per-Imen-mat-khent(j) (New Kingdom), or Dehenet (since 26th Dynasty) is the Greek name for the modern Egyptian village of Ṭihnā al-Ǧabal (Arabic: طهنا الجبل, from Coptic: ⲧⲉϩⲛⲉ, lit. 'peak'), located about 12 km north of Al Minya. The ancient site is situated in the southeast of the modern village.
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