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APPENDIX.
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are the remains of an antient dyke constructed with masonry,
and other works of considerable magnitude; and in the adjacent
rocks are excavated tombs, but they do not appear to contain
inscriptions.
Ptolemais, called Ptolemaido in the " Theodosian Table," is
described by Ptolemy to have been near the entrance to the
Arsinoite Nome. It is now called Illahoon, and is at the
entrance into the Faioum. Tbe sluice for the admission of the
waters into tbe canal called Bahr Yousef is evidently built on
an antient foundation, and the sliafts near the Pyramids seem
to have formed the cemetery of tbe antient city.
Veano. In tbe " Theodosian Table " we find that the
distance from Veano to Ptolemaidon Arsinoitum was six miles.
If six be supposed to be a mistake for eleven, the distance would
coincide with that of some antient mounds, upon which is a
village called Wennee.
Pousiiin, or Bousiiin according to the Coptic, was at Boosh.
Phannisjoit appears to have been near Poucbin, and, accord-
ing to Champollion, it was at tbe modern village of Zaytoon, the
word Phannisjoit signifying in the Coptic, as Zaytoon in the
Arabic, a place of olives.
Ikemen, under the Emperor Diocletian, was a military post
near the above-mentioned places.
C^:ne was at Benisouef. The only notice of it is in the
" Itinerary of Antoninus," which states that it was about twenty
miles from Isiu.
Heuacleopolis Magna. The capital of this nome was, by
the "Theodosian Table," six miles south of Ptolemais; and
antient mounds and foundations near the village of Annas agree
with this distance.
NOMOS CROCODILOPOLITIS.
This district was so called by the Greeks, but by the Egypt-
ians Piom, because it was marshy and full of water. Under the
Lagidte the province, as well as the capital, was called Arsinoe.
It is now known by the name of Faioum, which seems to be a
corruption of its Egyptian name. The chief town, Medeenet el
Faioum, is to the southward of the site of the antient Arsinoe.
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are the remains of an antient dyke constructed with masonry,
and other works of considerable magnitude; and in the adjacent
rocks are excavated tombs, but they do not appear to contain
inscriptions.
Ptolemais, called Ptolemaido in the " Theodosian Table," is
described by Ptolemy to have been near the entrance to the
Arsinoite Nome. It is now called Illahoon, and is at the
entrance into the Faioum. Tbe sluice for the admission of the
waters into tbe canal called Bahr Yousef is evidently built on
an antient foundation, and the sliafts near the Pyramids seem
to have formed the cemetery of tbe antient city.
Veano. In tbe " Theodosian Table " we find that the
distance from Veano to Ptolemaidon Arsinoitum was six miles.
If six be supposed to be a mistake for eleven, the distance would
coincide with that of some antient mounds, upon which is a
village called Wennee.
Pousiiin, or Bousiiin according to the Coptic, was at Boosh.
Phannisjoit appears to have been near Poucbin, and, accord-
ing to Champollion, it was at tbe modern village of Zaytoon, the
word Phannisjoit signifying in the Coptic, as Zaytoon in the
Arabic, a place of olives.
Ikemen, under the Emperor Diocletian, was a military post
near the above-mentioned places.
C^:ne was at Benisouef. The only notice of it is in the
" Itinerary of Antoninus," which states that it was about twenty
miles from Isiu.
Heuacleopolis Magna. The capital of this nome was, by
the "Theodosian Table," six miles south of Ptolemais; and
antient mounds and foundations near the village of Annas agree
with this distance.
NOMOS CROCODILOPOLITIS.
This district was so called by the Greeks, but by the Egypt-
ians Piom, because it was marshy and full of water. Under the
Lagidte the province, as well as the capital, was called Arsinoe.
It is now known by the name of Faioum, which seems to be a
corruption of its Egyptian name. The chief town, Medeenet el
Faioum, is to the southward of the site of the antient Arsinoe.