Pathyris/Aphroditopolis

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Creators: T. Wilfong, S.E. Sidebotham, J. Keenan — last modified 2017-01-31T15:02:11Z
Contributors: Wilfong, T., S. Sidebotham, J. Keenan, H. Cayless, R. Talbert, A. Prins, J. Thum, J. Becker, W. Röllig, T. Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, H. Verreth, F. Deblauwe, S. Gillies, B. Siewert-Mayer, M. Depauw, E. Kansa
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Pathyris/Aphroditopolis is known especially for its necropolis where material ranges in date from the Predynastic Period to the Middle Kingdom. In the 160s BC Ptolemy VI Philometor established a military outpost at the site that was destroyed in the first century BC.

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settlement, cemetery

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