Sidfa

Sidfa

Sidfa

Town in Asyut, Egypt

Sidfa (Arabic: صدفا, from Ancient Egyptian: ḥw.t-sḥtp.t[4]) is a town in Egypt.[5] It is located near the city of Abnub in the Asyut Governorate. It was known in antiquity by the Greeks as Hisopis.[3]

Quick Facts صدفا, Country ...
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ḥt sḥtp[2][3]
in hieroglyphs
Era: Ptolemaic dynasty
(305–30 BC)

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Ṣidfa (Markaz, Egypt) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location". www.citypopulation.de. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  2. [2]
    Gauthier, Henri (1927). Dictionnaire des Noms Géographiques Contenus dans les Textes Hiéroglyphiques Vol. 4. p. 128.
  3. [3]
    Brugsch, Heinrich (1879). Dictionnaire géographique de l'ancienne Egypte: contenant par ordre alphabétique la nomenclature comparée des noms propres géographiques qui se rencontrent sur les monuments et dans les papyrus. J. C. Hinrichs. pp. 735–736.
  4. [4]
    Peust, Carsten. "Die Toponyme vorarabischen Ursprungs im modernen Ägypten" (PDF). p. 85.
  5. [5]
    Buhūth Al-Qāhirah Fī Alʾulūm Al-ijtimaʾīyah. American University in Cairo. 1982.


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