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Location:

  • Egypt, ‘Izbat atTall
  • geo:31.057751,31.581583
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -330~ / 3xx~

Class:

  • City
  • visible

Identifiers:

Annotations

Phernouphis (Onuphis) was capital of the eponymous Phernouphite toparchy, in the Mendesian nome, in Ancient Egypt, at the site of Barnufa (Tell Billa, Tell Tebilla).

Sources:

  1. Katherine Blouin, Triangular Landscapes: Environment, Society, and the State in the Nile Delta Under Roman Rule. Oxford University Press, 2014,  p. 109–111.

 


Nearby

The Great Mendes Stela (12 km)

Tell El-Ruba. Commemorative stele erected by Ptolemy II Philadelphus.

Tell Tebilla (12 km)

The settlement dates from at least as early as the Old Kingdom.

MENDES (12 km)

Ruins on the city. The oldest surviving monuments date to the late Old Kingdom.


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