Meanings
- not comparableOf or relating to the ancient city of Aphroditopolis.
[…] their glorious rising, or birth, was in the city of Kheb in the Aphroditopolitan Nome.
1893, Sir Erasmus Wilson, Egypt of the Past, page 5023 more examples
Limestone stele, in the form of a false door of Ka-utch-ankh, district chief of the Aphroditopolitan nome, captain of the king's guard and overseer of the cattle belonging to the guard of the court.
1911, British Museum. Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, Hieroglyphic Texts from Egyptian Stelae, &c., in the British MuseumInyotef II would appear to have been a brother of Inyotef I, and was responsible for the addition of the Thinite (Abydene) nome to his patrimony; [I made] its northern boundary as far as the Aphroditopolitan nome.
2000 December 1, Aidan Dodson, Monarchs of the Nile, American University in Cairo Press, →ISBNWe possess no fewer than seven from the prolific pen of Dioscorus—on the wedding of the magnificent count Callinicus, the most splendid Isacius, and various other distinguished Aphroditopolitan bridegrooms.
2016, Alan Cameron, Wandering Poets and Other Essays on Late Greek Literature and Philosophy, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 11
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