Onouphis

Onouphis ( Greek  Ὄνουφις , Latin Onuphis ) was an ancient place in the Nile Delta in Egypt and the main town of the Nomos Onouphites . It was located at today's Mahallat Minuf , about 11 km north of Tanta . In late antiquity Onouphis was the seat of a bishop. The titular bishopric of Onuphis of the Roman Catholic Church goes back to this diocese .

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• Herodotus 2,166
• Stephanos of Byzantium sub voce Onouphis
• Claudius Ptolemy 4,5,51
• Pliny the Elder , Naturalis historia 5,9f

literature

• William Bodham Donne:  Onuphis . In: William Smith : Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London 1854.
• Karl Jansen-Winkeln: Onuphis. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 8, Metzler, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-476-01478-9 .
• Hermann Kees: Onuphis. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XVIII, 1, Stuttgart 1939, Col. 529 f.

Web links

• Onouphis on Trismegistus Geo

Coordinates: 30 ° 53 '  N , 30 ° 58'  E