Hypselis

Hypselis
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Location Asyut Governorate, Egypt
Coordinates 27°08′38″N 31°14′17″E / 27.1440°N 31.2380°E / 27.1440; 31.2380
Type Settlement

Hypselis or Hypsela (Coptic: ϣⲱⲧⲡ[1]) is an ancient Egyptian city and Roman bishopric, which was located near the modern town of Shutb (or ash-Shatb, Chutb).

Name

Hypselis or Hypsela is the Greek word of Shashotep.

History

The city was known as Shashotep by ancient Egyptians, and is first mentioned in texts dating back to the First Intermediate Period. During the subsequent Middle Kingdom it was the main town of the 11th Upper Egyptian nome. The main deity of ancient Shashotep was Khnum, who was sometimes called Lord of Shashotep. The cemeteries near the modern place Rifeh, once belonged to the town.[2]

In Roman times, and before fading into the desert, the city became one of the suffragan sees of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Antinoë, capital of the province of Thebais Prima.

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin Titular bishopric by the names of Hypselis / Hypselitan(us) (Latin) or Ipseli (Curiate Italian). It is vacant since decades, after the offices of Alain-Sébastien Le Breton (from 1939 to 1955) and Jesús Serrano Pastor (from 1956 to his death in 1997).[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ https://st-takla.org/books/pauline-todary/coptic-language/egyptian.html
  2. ↑ Farouk Gomaà: Die Besiedlung Ägyptens während des Mittleren Reiches, I. Oberägypten und das Fayyūm, Wiesbaden 1986, ISBN 9783882262797. pp. 250-251
  3. ↑ GCatholic

Coordinates: 27°08′38″N 31°14′17″E / 27.1440°N 31.2380°E / 27.1440; 31.2380

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