Hypselis

Hypselis or Hypsela (Ancient Greek: Ύψηλή[1]; Coptic: ϣⲱⲧⲡ[2]), known to the ancient Egyptians as Shashotep, is an ancient Egyptian city and Roman bishopric, which was located near the modern town of Shutb (or ash-Shatb, Chutb) in the Asyut Governorate.

Hypselis
ϣⲱⲧⲡ
شطب
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Alternative nameShashotep
LocationAsyut Governorate, Egypt
Coordinates27.1440°N 31.2380°E / 27.1440; 31.2380
TypeSettlement

History

Antiquity

or


šꜣs ḥtp[3][4]
in hieroglyphs

Shashotep 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.[5] The main deity of ancient Shashotep was Khnum, who was sometimes called "Lord of Shashotep".[6] The cemeteries near the modern place Rifeh, once belonged to the town.[5][6] Later, the city became known by the Greeks as Hypselis.[5][6]

Titular see

During Roman time, 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.
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin Titular bishopric by the names of Hypselis / Ipseli. It is vacant since 1997, following the death of its last bishop, Jesús Serrano Pastor.[7]

See also

References
  1. Gauthier, Henri (1929). Dictionnaire des Noms Géographiques Contenus dans les Textes Hiéroglyphiques Vol. 6. pp. 107-108, 152.
  2. https://st-takla.org/books/pauline-todary/coptic-language/egyptian.html
  3. Gauthier, Henri (1928). Dictionnaire des Noms Géographiques Contenus dans les Textes Hiéroglyphiques Vol. 5. pp. 107, 108.
  4. Wallis Budge, E. A. (1920). An Egyptian hieroglyphic dictionary: with an index of English words, king list and geological list with indexes, list of hieroglyphic characters, coptic and semitic alphabets, etc. Vol II. John Murray. p. 1037.
  5. Farouk Gomaà, Die Besiedlung Ägyptens während des Mittleren Reiches, I. Oberägypten und das Fayyūm, Wiesbaden 1986, ISBN 9783882262797. pp. 250-251
  6. Wolfram Grajetzki, The Tomb of Khnumhotep at Rifeh, in A. Dodson, J.J. Johnson & W. Monkhouse (eds), "A Good Scribe and an Exceedingly Wise Man: studies in honour of W.J. Tait", London: Golden House Publications, 2014, p. 99
  7. GCatholic

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