بوسيريس (أفروديتوپوليس)
بوسيريس (أفروديتوپوليس)
Busiris (Aphroditopolis) | |
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أطلال | |
الكنية: Tpyhwt | |
الإحداثيات: 29°25′N 31°15′E / 29.417°N 31.250°E | |
البلد | مصر |
المحافظة | محافظة الجيزة |
منطقة التوقيت | UTC+2 (EST) |
• الصيف (التوقيت الصيفي) | +3 |
بوسيريس (Busiris ؛ باليونانية: Βούσιρις) أو Aphroditopolis كانت مدينة قديمة في مصر الوسطى، في Aphroditopolite nome، على الضفة الغربية لنهر النيل، جنوب غرب أفروديتوپوليس (مدينة أطفيح الحالية).
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الموقع
Aphroditopolis is located 38 miles upstream from Cairo, near the ruins of Memphis, Egypt. All that remains of the city is mounds and ruins, which were excavated by Matthew Flinders Petrie.
التاريخ
The city was known as Tpyhwt during pharohnic times, Βούσιρις(Busiris) in Hellenistic times, Aphroditopolis during the Byzantine and Roman Empires, Petpeh in Coptic, and since the Islamic conquest as Atfih.
Under the Ptolemaic dynasty was the seat of the Aphroditopolis Nome[1] and under the Romans was also seat of former bishopric, in Roman province Arcadia Aegypti. Known bishops include:
- Chysaorius of Aphroditopolis[2]
- Issac of Aphroditopolis[3] fl.1183 (Latin)
- Jacob, Bishop of Aphroditopolis fl.1020s[4]
- Father Zosima el-Antony[5](Orthodox)
It remains today a vacant titular see.[6]
المراجع
- ^ Article "An Egyptian Village in the Age of Justinian" in The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 64, 1944 (1944), pp. 21-36
- ^ Richard Price, Michael Gaddis The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon, Volume 1 (Liverpool University Press, 2005) p299
- ^ Jill Kamil, Christianity in the Land of the Pharaohs: The Coptic Orthodox Church (Routledge, 24 May 2013) p261.
- ^ (Latin) Naqlun excavations 1995.
- ^ First new bishops consecrated by Pope Tawadros.
- ^ Aphroditopolis at GCatholic.org.