Taposiris Parva

Busiris in hieroglyphics
Greek	Busiris
Coptic	Busir

The old Taposiris Parva ( Montazah ) is probably the successor to the Greek name Busiris . The ancient Egyptian town was located in Lower Egypt on a small peninsula on the Mediterranean Sea east of Alexandria . Taposiris Parva is one of the six places that have so far been localized under the Greek name Busiris.

In ancient Egypt, the small village was in the third  sub-Egyptian district . Although the place has been mentioned several times, nothing more is known about ancient Egyptian history.

literature

• Farouk Gomaa: Busiris (Abu Sir Bana) In: Kathryn A. Bard, Steven Blake Shubert: Encyclopedia of the archeology of ancient Egypt . Routledge, London 1999, ISBN 0-415-18589-0 , p. 208.
• Samy Shenouda:  Taposiris Parva (El-Mandara) Egypt . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .

Coordinates: 31 ° 17 '  N , 30 ° 1'  E