Antinopolis (modern Sheikh 'Ibada) was the city commemorating Antinous, which was founded to commemorate his deified lover by Hadrian, on the east bank of the Nile, not far from the site in Upper Egypt where Antinous drowned in 130. The new settlement was colonized by Greeks brought from other cities to whom were given the right of connubium, that is, to marry an Egyptian woman without forfeiting Greek privileges. The city was the center of the official cult of Antinous. Under Diocletian (A.D. 286) Antinopolis became the capital of the nome of the Thebaid. In the reign of Valens (364-78), it became the seat of rival bishoprics, one Orthodox and one Monophysite. As a cultural center, it was the native city of the fourth-century mathematician Serenus of Antinopolis. It was still a "most illustrious' city in a surviving divorce decree of 569 ^[1] Bust of Antinous in the Palazzo Altemps museum in Rome Antinous or Antinoos (Greek: Αντινοος, born circa 110 or 111 CE, died 130 CE), lover of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, was born to a Greek family in Bithynion-Claudiopolis, in the province of Bithynia in what is now north-west Turkey. ... Publius Aelius Traianus Hadrianus (January 24, 76–July 10, 138), known as Hadrian in English, was Roman emperor from 117–138, and a member of the gens Aelia. ... The Nile (Arabic: النيل an-nīl), in Africa, is the longest river on Earth. ... Map of Upper and Lower Egypt Ancient Egypt was divided into two kingdoms, known as Upper and Lower Egypt. ... Emperor Diocletian. ... The nomes of Ancient Egypt A nome (Greek: district) is a subnational administrative division of Ancient Egypt. ... The Thebaid is the region of ancient Egypt containing the thirteen southernmost nomes of Upper Egypt, from Abydos to Aswan. ... Flavius Julius Valens (Latin: IMP·CAESAR·FLAVIVS·IVLIVS·VALENS·AVGVSTVS) (328 – August 9, 378) was Roman emperor from 364 until his death, after he was given the Eastern part of the empire by his brother Valentinian I. His father was the general Gratian the Elder. ... Monophysitism (from the Greek monos meaning one and physis meaning nature) is the christological position that Christ has only one nature, as opposed to the Chalcedonian position which holds that Christ has two natures, one divine and one human. ...

The earliest finds at the site date to the New Kingdom, when it may have been sacred to Bes or to Hathor (ref. Princeton). The god Bes. ... Statue of Hathor (Luxor Museum) In Egyptian mythology, Hathor (Egyptian for house of Horus) was originally a personification of the Milky Way, which was seen as the milk that flowed from the udders of a heavenly cow. ...

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, when Napoleonic surveys were made, a theater, many temples, a triumphal arch, two streets with double colonnades, illustrated in Description de l'Egypte, a circus, and a hippodrome nearby were still to be seen. Today there is little left: blocks of stone were rebuilt into the new sugar factories at El-Rodah (ref. Princeton). Some excavations wrere undertaken by the University of Rome, 1965-68. Papyri from the site were edited and translated by J. W. B. Barns and H. Zilliacus. There is no institution called the University of Rome, but there are several universities in Rome: University of Rome La Sapienza University of Rome Tor Vergata University of Roma Tre This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Å¢ For other uses, see Papyrus (disambiguation). ...

Notes

1. ^ "Une acte de divorce par consentement mutuel"

References

• Richard Stillwell, ed. Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, 1976: Antinopolis (Sheikh-'Ibada) Egypt"