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politan Nome and the Babylonian fortress, as next 
in succession to the Hcliopolitan upon the Ara- 
bian side of the river. 
This position of the Nomes in Lower Egypt is 
equally authorised by Ptolemy. He enumerates 
them as they occurred from north to south* y 
after Strahos, method of description ; giving 
them in this order; — " the Bubastic Nome, and 
its metropolis Bubastus: the Heliopolilan Nome, 
and its metropolis Heliopolis."' These, toge- 
ther with Aphroditopolis, he places in Arabia''. 
The same position is assigned to them by the 
Ituierary of Antoninus ; 
In^ Arabia. 
Aphroditopolis, 
Scenas Mandras . , m.p. xx. 
Babylon m.p. xii. 
Heliu . . . . . . . M.P. XII. 
Other evidence to the same effect, if necessary* 
may be deduced from Diodorus Sicuhcs, and from 
Josephus. 
C4) Vid. Ptolem.Gco<s. lib. iv. p. 212. Paris, 1546. 
(5) 'E» fiS^opiSj) 'Afxfila; »ai 
' Alppodiro-ToXteu;, BcefiuXdv, 
'HXiiVToXi;. Ftolem. Geog. lil>. iv. p. 212. Pant, 1.'46. 
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