Leontopolis was an ancient Egyptian city located in the Nile Delta, Lower Egypt. It served as a provincial capital and Metropolitan Archbishopric. The...
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Leontopolis (Egyptian: Ney-ta-hut) is the Greek name of a city that may correspond to either the modern area of Tell el Yehudiye or Tell el-Yahudiya (Egyptian...
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Leontopolis may refer to: Leontopolis, also known as Tell el-Muqdam, capital of the 11th nome of Lower Egypt Leontopolis (Heliopolis), also known as Tell...
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Land of Onias (redirect from Jewish Temple of Leontopolis)
number of Jews settled. The Land of Onias, which included the city of Leontopolis (Λεόντων πόλις), was located in the Heliopolite Nome (Hebrew: אֹן ʾOn...
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Libyan control began to erode as a rival dynasty in the delta arose in Leontopolis, and Kushites threatened from the south. Around 727 BC the Kushite king...
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Elephantine, used by Jews in Egypt until the 4th century BCE Jewish Temple at Leontopolis, used by Jews in Egypt between the 2nd century BCE and the 1st century...
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may indicate that she was also identifying with Tefnut. Heliopolis and Leontopolis (now ell el-Muqdam) were the primary cult centres. At Heliopolis, Tefnut...
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Sekhmet at Taremu in the Delta region, a city which the Greeks called Leontopolis.[citation needed] The first known unambiguous reference to Sekhmet has...
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Peter's Basilica Siloam tunnel Siloam inscription Elephantine Temple Leontopolis Temple Samaritan Temple 'Ain Dara temple Ebla (Temple D) Emar temple...
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native Egyptian rulers: Peftjaubast, Osorkon IV of Tanis, Iuput II of Leontopolis and Tefnakht of Sais. He established the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of "Black...
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