Busiris (Aphroditopolis)
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| native_name = أطفيح
| nickname = Tpyhwt
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Busiris (Greek: {{lang|grc|Βούσιρις}}) 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. 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 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[https://www.jstor.org/stable/627043 Article "An Egyptian Village in the Age of Justinian"] in The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 64, 1944 (1944), pp. 21-36 and under the Romans was also seat of former bishopric, in Roman province Arcadia Aegypti.
Known bishops include:
- Chysaorius of AphroditopolisRichard Price, Michael Gaddis [https://books.google.com/books?id=6IUaOOT1G3UC&q=Aphroditopolis&pg=PA33 The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon], Volume 1 (Liverpool University Press, 2005) p299
- Issac of AphroditopolisJill Kamil, Christianity in the Land of the Pharaohs: The Coptic Orthodox Church (Routledge, 24 May 2013) [https://books.google.com/books?id=tSKCULsNQ_kC&dq=bishop+of+Aphroditopolis&pg=PA261 p261]. fl.1183 (Latin)
- Jacob, Bishop of Aphroditopolis fl.1020s(Latin) [http://www.pcma.uw.edu.pl/fileadmin/pam/PAM_1995_VII/383.pdf Naqlun excavations 1995] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160920092630/http://www.pcma.uw.edu.pl/fileadmin/pam/PAM_1995_VII/383.pdf |date=2016-09-20 }}.
- Father Zosima el-Antony[http://britishorthodox.org/3928/first-new-bishops-consecrated-by-pope-tawadros/ First new bishops consecrated by Pope Tawadros].(Orthodox)
It remains today a vacant titular see.[http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t0072.htm Aphroditopolis] at GCatholic.org.
References
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- Richard Talbert, Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, ({{ISBN|0-691-03169-X}}), p. 75.
Category:Cities in ancient Egypt
Category:Former populated places in Egypt
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