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APPENDIX.
are built; and the Serapium was placed, according to Strabo,
upon the plain near it; but no vestiges of it have been discovered.
Venus Aurea. Diodorus speaks of a field called " Venus
Aurea " in the neighbourhood of Memphis; and an old site near
the river, as has been already mentioned, is now called Gezeeret
el Dahab {the golden island or field), which seems to be a trans-
lation of the antient name.
Bousiris. This name was applied to various places in Egypt,
where Osiris was worshipped in the form of an ox. The Busiris
mentioned by Pliny has been generally supposed to have been
at Abouseir, on account of the similarity of name; but, as the
situation of that place appears to have been included within
the city of Memphis, the name may be supposed to have marked
the site of a temple dedicated to Osiris within the city; and
if, as Pliny describes, Busiris was opposite the Great Pyramid
of Gizeh, it may with more projjriety be supposed to have been at
an old site upon the adjacent plain, near the village of Kom el
Eswith {the blach mound).
Acanthus. The Egyptian name of this town is not known,
but it is mentioned by Diodorus, Strabo, and Ptolemy; and
Strabo assigns to it a temple of Osiris, and a sacred grove of
Egyptian thorn (the acanthus of the Greeks). Groves of these
trees are now to be met with between Saccara and Dashoor, and
the town was most probably, therefore, situated on the edge of
the desert near the hamlet of Zowyet el Dashoor.
Peme, or Pemeau, is stated, in the " Itinerary," to have been
twenty miles from Memphis. About this distance a place, called
Bemah, has been constructed upon an antient site, and the
Pyramids and a cemetery near them appear to establish the
antiquity of the spot.
NOMOS HERACLEOPOLITIS.
According to Ptolemy, it was divided from the Nomos Mem-
phitis by the river, which probably flowed near Kafoor el Gazaala,
where a canal from the Bahr Yousef intersects the cultivated
land.
Isidis Oppidum, Issiu, or Iseum, was, by the " Itinerary,"
forty miles from Memphis, probably at the site now occupied hy
the modern village of Zowyet el Masloob.
Nilopolis, where there was a temple dedicated to the Nile,
under the personification of Osiris, and under the title of Bousiris,
seems to have been at a place called Abouseir el Melik. Near it
APPENDIX.
are built; and the Serapium was placed, according to Strabo,
upon the plain near it; but no vestiges of it have been discovered.
Venus Aurea. Diodorus speaks of a field called " Venus
Aurea " in the neighbourhood of Memphis; and an old site near
the river, as has been already mentioned, is now called Gezeeret
el Dahab {the golden island or field), which seems to be a trans-
lation of the antient name.
Bousiris. This name was applied to various places in Egypt,
where Osiris was worshipped in the form of an ox. The Busiris
mentioned by Pliny has been generally supposed to have been
at Abouseir, on account of the similarity of name; but, as the
situation of that place appears to have been included within
the city of Memphis, the name may be supposed to have marked
the site of a temple dedicated to Osiris within the city; and
if, as Pliny describes, Busiris was opposite the Great Pyramid
of Gizeh, it may with more projjriety be supposed to have been at
an old site upon the adjacent plain, near the village of Kom el
Eswith {the blach mound).
Acanthus. The Egyptian name of this town is not known,
but it is mentioned by Diodorus, Strabo, and Ptolemy; and
Strabo assigns to it a temple of Osiris, and a sacred grove of
Egyptian thorn (the acanthus of the Greeks). Groves of these
trees are now to be met with between Saccara and Dashoor, and
the town was most probably, therefore, situated on the edge of
the desert near the hamlet of Zowyet el Dashoor.
Peme, or Pemeau, is stated, in the " Itinerary," to have been
twenty miles from Memphis. About this distance a place, called
Bemah, has been constructed upon an antient site, and the
Pyramids and a cemetery near them appear to establish the
antiquity of the spot.
NOMOS HERACLEOPOLITIS.
According to Ptolemy, it was divided from the Nomos Mem-
phitis by the river, which probably flowed near Kafoor el Gazaala,
where a canal from the Bahr Yousef intersects the cultivated
land.
Isidis Oppidum, Issiu, or Iseum, was, by the " Itinerary,"
forty miles from Memphis, probably at the site now occupied hy
the modern village of Zowyet el Masloob.
Nilopolis, where there was a temple dedicated to the Nile,
under the personification of Osiris, and under the title of Bousiris,
seems to have been at a place called Abouseir el Melik. Near it