Cynopolis

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)
Cynopolis
Town
Etymology: "City of the dog"
A map of Ancient Egypt
A map of Ancient Egypt

Cynopolis (

bishoprics in Christian times.[2]

Cynopolis superior

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or
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in hieroglyphs

Cynopolis was the Greek name for the ancient Egyptian town of Saka (or Hardai?); (

El Kays now stands on the site.[9] The nome of Cynopolis extended to both banks of the Nile.[10]

A burial ground for dogs was discovered on the opposite bank of the Nile, near Hamatha.

Oxyrhynchos started attacking dogs in revenge, which resulted in a minor civil war.[13]

Cynopolis was destroyed by the viceroy of Nubia

Ramses XI: the survivors were enslaved.[6]

The diocese, which became obscure under Islam, was nominally restored in 1933 as a Latin Catholic

titular bishopric
. It was named Cynopolis in Aegypto. The see has been vacant for several decades, having had the following incumbents, both of the lowest (episcopal) rank:

Cynopolis inferior

There was a second Cynopolis, referred to as Cynopolis Inferior or Cynum,

Busirite nome in Lower Egypt (the Nile delta),[15][16] now modern Meniet ebn Kasib.[17][dubious
] It was a
suffragan bishopric of Oxyrhynchus, the Metropolitan Archbishopric and provincial capital of the Late Roman province of Arcadia Aegypti
.

The diocese was nominally restored in 1922 as a Latin Catholic

titular bishopric
under the name Cynopolis. In 1933 the name of the see was changed to Cynopolis in Arcadia. The see has been vacant for several decades. The incumbents from 1922 to 1968 were:

References

  1. ^ Room (2006), p. 102
  2. ^ Wiltsch (1846), pp. 184f
  3. ^ Wallis Budge, E. A. (1920). An Egyptian hieroglyphic dictionary: with an index of English words, king list and geological list with indexes, list of hieroglyphic characters, coptic and semitic alphabets, etc. Vol II. John Murray. p. 1087.
  4. ^ Gauthier, Henri (1927). Dictionnaire des Noms Géographiques Contenus dans les Textes Hiéroglyphiques Vol. 4. p. 40.
  5. ^ Budge (1920) p. 1087
  6. ^ a b Černý (1975), p. 631
  7. ^ Helck (1974), p. 113
  8. ^ Lane (2000), p. 31
  9. ^ Lane (2000), p. 27
  10. ^ Lane (2000), p. 248
  11. .
  12. ^ G. Wilkinson, John (1847). Hand-book for Travellers in Egypt: Including Descriptions of the Course of the Nile to the Second Cataract, Alexandria, Cairo, the Pyramids, and Thebes, the Overland Transit to India, the Peninsula of Mount Sinai, the Oases, &c. Being a New Edition, Corrected and Condensed, of "Modern Egypt and Thebes". John Murray. p. 286.
  13. ^ Sayce et al. (1904), p. 77
  14. ^ Wiltsch (1846), p. 184
  15. ^ Bingham (2005), p. 356
  16. ^ Müller (1877), p. 786
  17. ^ Hardouin & Pihan Delaforest (1828), p. 464

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