Hypselis
{{Infobox ancient site
| name = Hypselis
| native_name = ϣⲱⲧⲡ
شطب
| alternate_name = Shashotep
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| map_type = Egypt
| coordinates = {{coord|27.1440|N|31.2380|E|display=inline}}
| location = Asyut Governorate, Egypt
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| type = Settlement
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Hypselis or Hypsela ({{langx|grc|Ύψηλή}};{{cite book |last1=Gauthier |first1=Henri |title=Dictionnaire des Noms Géographiques Contenus dans les Textes Hiéroglyphiques|trans-title=Dictionary of Geographical Names Contained in Hieroglyphic Texts|date=1926 |pages=107–108, 152 |url=https://archive.org/details/Gauthier1928/page/n57/mode/2up|volume=5|author-link=Henri_Gauthier |location=Cairo |publisher=Société Royale de Géographie D'Égypte}} {{langx|cop|ϣⲱⲧⲡ}}
{{cite web |url=https://st-takla.org/books/pauline-todary/coptic-language/egyptian.html|title=أسماء بعض البلاد المصرية بالقبطية |trans-title=The names of some Egyptian countries in Coptic |last=Todri |first=A. Pauline |date=2012 |website=st-takla.org |access-date=2022-11-26|language=arabic}}), known to the ancient Egyptians as Shashotep, is an ancient Egyptian city and Roman bishopric, which was located near the modern town of Shutb (or ash-Shatb, Chutb) in the Asyut Governorate.
History
=Antiquity=
{{hiero|šꜣs ḥtp{{cite book |date=1928 |url=https://archive.org/details/Gauthier1928|last1=Gauthier |first1=Henri |title=Dictionnaire des Noms Géographiques Contenus dans les Textes Hiéroglyphiques|trans-title=Dictionary of Geographical Names Contained in Hieroglyphic Texts |pages=107–108, 152|volume=5|author-link=Henri_Gauthier |location=Cairo |publisher=Société Royale de Géographie D'Égypte}}{{cite book |last1=Budge |first1=E. A. Wallis |title=An Egyptian hieroglyphic dictionary|date=1920 |publisher=John Murray |page=1037 |url=https://archive.org/details/egyptianhierogly02budguoft/page/1036/mode/2up |volume=2 |authorlink=E._A._Wallis_Budge|location=London}}|
Shashotep is first mentioned in texts dating back to the First Intermediate Period. During the subsequent Middle Kingdom it was the main town of the 11th Upper Egyptian nome.{{cite book |last=Gomaà |first=Farouk |date=1986 |title=Die Besiedlung Ägyptens während des Mittleren Reiches, I. Oberägypten und das Fayyūm |trans-title=The settlement of Egypt during the Middle Kingdom, I. Upper Egypt and the Fayyūm |language=German |location=Wiesbaden |publisher=Reichert |isbn=9783882262797|pages=250–251}} The main deity of ancient Shashotep was Khnum, who was sometimes called "Lord of Shashotep".{{cite book |last=Grajetzki |first=Wolfram |author-link=Wolfram_Grajetzki |date=2014 |chapter=The Tomb of Khnumhotep at Rifeh|title=A Good Scribe and an Exceedingly Wise Man: studies in honour of W.J. Tait |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/871236690 |location=London |publisher=Golden House Publications |page=99 |isbn=9781906137335|editor1-first=Aidan |editor1-last=Dodson|editor-link1=Aidan Dodson|editor2-first=John J.|editor2-last=Johnston|editor3-first=Wendy|editor3-last=Monkhouse}} The cemeteries near the modern place Rifeh, once belonged to the town. Later, the city became known by the Greeks as Hypselis.
= Titular see =
During Roman time, and before fading into the desert, the city became one of the suffragan sees of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Antinoë, capital of the province of Thebais Prima. The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin Titular bishopric by the names of Hypselis / Ipseli. It is vacant since 1997, following the death of its last bishop, Jesús Serrano Pastor.[http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t0933.htm GCatholic]
See also
References
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Category:Catholic titular sees in Africa
Category:Cities in ancient Egypt
Category:Former populated places in Egypt
Category:Suppressed Roman Catholic dioceses
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