Buto

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Buto or Butos or Butosos (Greek: Βοῦτος, Herod. ii. 59, 63, 155; Βουτώ, Steph. B. s. v.), was an ancient city located 95 km east of Alexandria in Egypt's Nile Delta. Buto stood on the Sebennytic arm of the Nile, near its mouth, and on the southern shore of the Butic Lake. (Βουτικὴ λίμνη, Strabo xvii. p. 802.) It is the modern Kem Kasir. Image File history File links Point_rouge_croix_frontier_vert_green. ... Buto may refer to: Buto, an Ancient Egyptian city Buto, another name for the Egyptian goddess Wadjet Butō, a modern Japanese form of dance Category: ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Stephanus Byzantinus (Stephanus of Byzantium), the author of a geographical dictionary entitled Εθνικα (Ethnica), of which, apart from some fragments, we possess only the meagre epitome of one Hermolaus. ... A kilometre (American spelling: kilometer) (symbol: km) is a unit of length equal to 1000 metres (from the Greek words khilia = thousand and metro = count/measure). ... Nickname: Alexandria on the map of Egypt Map of Alexandria Coordinates: , Country Egypt Founded 334 BC Government  - Governor Adel Labib Population (2001)  - City 3,500,000 Time zone EET (UTC+2)  - Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3) Twin Cities  - Baltimore  United States  - Cleveland  United States  - ConstanÅ£a  Romania  - Durban  South Africa... NASA satellite photograph of the Nile Delta (shown in false colour) The Nile Delta (Arabic:دلتا النيل) is the delta formed in Northern Egypt where the Nile River spreads out and drains into the Mediterranean Sea. ... The Nile (Arabic: , transliteration: , Ancient Egyptian iteru, Coptic piaro or phiaro) is a major north-flowing river in Africa, generally regarded as the longest river in the world. ... The Greek geographer Strabo in a 16th century engraving. ...

Buto was originally two cities, Pe and Dep merged into one the Greeks called Buto, and the Egyptians named Per-Wadjet. The goddess Wadjet was originally the local goddess and patron of an oracle in the city. In Ptolemaic Egypt, it was the capital town, or according to Herodian, merely the principal village of the Nile Delta, which Herodotus (l. c.) calls the Chemmite nome; Ptolemy, the Phthenothite nome (Φθενότης, iv. 5. § 48) and Pliny the Elder (v. 9. s. 11), Ptenetha. In Egyptian mythology, Buto (papyrus colored--referring to the color of the cobra) was a snake (especially cobra) goddess and patron of the oracle in the city of the same name. ... Consulting the Oracle by John William Waterhouse, showing eight priestesses in a temple of prophecy An oracle is a person or persons considered to be the source of wise counsel or prophetic opinion; an infallible authority, usually spiritual in nature. ... Ptolemy, one of Alexander the Greats generals, was appointed satrap of Egypt after Alexanders death in 323 BC. In 305 BC he declared himself King Ptolemy I, later known as Soter (saviour). ... A medieval artists rendition of Claudius Ptolemaeus Claudius Ptolemaeus (Greek: ; ca. ... Pliny the Elder: an imaginative 19th Century portrait. ...

Buto was an important site in the Predynastic era of Ancient Egypt. Archaeological evidence show that Upper Egyptian culture replaced the Buto-culture when Upper and Lower Egypt were unified, and is considered important evidence for the unification itself. Khafres Pyramid (4th dynasty) and Great Sphinx of Giza (c. ... Map of Upper and Lower Egypt Ancient Egypt was divided into two kingdoms, known as Upper and Lower Egypt. ... Map of Upper and Lower Egypt Ancient Egypt was divided into two kingdoms, known as Upper and Lower Egypt. ...

The town was celebrated for its monolithite temple (Herod. ii. 155) and oracle of the goddess Buto (Aelian. V. Hist. ii. 41), whom the Greeks identified with Leto or Latona. A yearly feast was held there in honour of the goddess. At Buto there was also a sanctuary of Horus (associated by the ancient Greeks with Apollo) and of Bastet (associated with Artemis). (Champollion, l'Egypte, vol. ii. p. 227.) The name Buto of the Greeks is nearly allied to that of Muth or Maut, which is one of the appellations of Isis, as Mother of the World. (Plut. Is. et Osir. 18, 38.) The shrewmouse was worshipped at Buto. (Herod. ii. 67.) In Greek mythology, LÄ“tṓ (Greek: , Lato in Dorian Greek, meaning disputed) is a daughter of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe:[1] Kos claimed her birthplace. ... For a place in the Oio Region in Guinea-Bissau, see Leto, Guinea-Bissau In Greek mythology Lētō (Greek: Λητώ, Lato in Dorian Greek, the hidden one) is known to be a daughter of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe, and in the Olympian scheme... This page is about the Egyptian deity. ... Ancient Greece is the term used to describe the Greek_speaking world in ancient times. ... Lycian Apollo, early Imperial Roman copy of a fourth century Greek original (Louvre Museum) In Greek and Roman mythology, Apollo (Ancient Greek , Apóllōn; or , Apellōn), the ideal of the kouros (a beardless youth), was the archer-god of medicine and healing, light, truth, archery and also a... In Egyptian mythology, Bastet was a solar deity and a goddess of fertility and protector of pregnant women. ... The Diana of Versailles, a Roman copy of a sculpture by Leochares (Louvre Museum) In Greek mythology, Artemis (Greek: (nominative) , (genitive) ) was the daughter of Zeus and Leto and the twin sister of Apollo. ... Jean_François Champollion For the comet rendezvous spacecraft, see Champollion (spacecraft). ... Isis is a goddess in Egyptian mythology. ... Mestrius Plutarchus (Greek: Πλούταρχος; 46 - 127), better known in English as Plutarch, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist. ...

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• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography by William Smith (1857).

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