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Pharbsethos^ Leontopolis^, Athribis^, the town of Isis^, 

 BuFiris^, Cynopolis®, Aphrodites^, Sais^, and Naucratis®, from 

 which last some M'riters call that the Naucratitic Mouth, 

 wliicb is hj others called the Heracleotic, and mention it 

 instead^" of the Canopic Mouth, which is the next to it. 



^ Called Harbait by the Arabs, and Farbait by the ancient Egyp' 

 tians. 



" In the Delta. It was the capital of the nome of Leontopolites, and 

 probably of late foiuidation, as no writer previous to PHny mentions it. 

 Its site is uncertain, but Thall-Essabouah, the " Hill of the Lion," has 

 been suggested. 



3 The chief town of the Athribitic nome in Lower Egypt. It stood on 

 the eastei'n bank of the Tanitic branch of the IS^ile. This nome and 

 town dei'ived their name from the goddess Tlu'ipliis, whom the inscrip- 

 tions there and at PanopoUs designate as the " most great goddess." The 

 ruins at Atrieb or Trieb, at the spot where the modem canal of Moneys 

 turns off from the IS^ile, represent the ancient Athribis. They are very 

 extensive, and among them are considerable remains of the Eoman era. 



■♦ Tliis was situate near the city or town of Busii-is in the Delta. The 

 modem village of Bahbeyt is supposed to cover the ruins of the temple 

 of Isis. 



^ The modem Busyr or Abousir, where considerable ruins of the an- 

 cient city are still to be seen. It was the chief town of the nome of 

 Busirites, and stood south of Sais, near the Phatnitic mouth, on the 

 western bank of the Nile. This was also the name of a town in Middle 

 Egypt, i:a the neighbourhood of Memphis, and represented by another 

 village of the name of Abousir. Phny, B. xxxvi. c. 16, speaks of the 

 Catacombs in its vicinity. 



^ The place of that name in the Delta is here meant. 



7 Probably the town of that name, otherwise called AphroditopoHs, 

 in the nome of Leontopolites. 



^ The ruins of which are now called Sa-el-Hayar. It was situate in 

 the Delta, on the east side of the Canopic branch of the Nile. It was the 

 ancient capital of Lower Egypt and contained the palace and burial-place 

 of the Pharaohs. It was tlie chief seat of the worship of the Egyptian 

 goddess Neith, also known as Sais. It gave its name to the nome of 

 Saites. 



3 It was situate in the Delta of Egy]")t and in the nome of Saites, 

 on the eastern bank of the Canopic branch of the Nile. It Was a 

 colony of the Milesians, founded probably in the reign of Amasis, 

 about B.C. 550, and remained a pure Greek city. It was the only place 

 in Egypt in which, in the time of the later Pharaolis, foreigners were 

 permitted to settle and trade. In later times it was famous for the 

 worship of Aplirodite or Venus, and rivalled Canopus in the dissolute- 

 ness of its manners. 



^o Ptolemy the geographer does tliis. 



