Akhmim
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Akhmim is a city in the Sohag Governorate of Upper Egypt. Referred to by the ancient Greeks as Khemmis or Chemmis and Panopolis, it is located on the east bank of the Nile, 6 kilometres to the northea
Residential area in the city
Statue of Meritamen, a daughter of Ramesses II, in the temple of Min
Church of Abu Seifein
Bischoy Kloster BW 10
Nonnus
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Nonnus of Panopolis was the most notable Greek epic poet of the Imperial Roman era. He was a native of Panopolis in the Egyptian Thebaid and probably lived in the 5th century AD. He is known as the co
Akhmim
…Athribis near Akhmim. Some years earlier Nestorius, the exiled ex-patriarch of Constantinople, had died at an old age in the neighborhood of Akhmim. Nonnus, the Greek poet, was born at Panopolis at the end of the 4th century. The bishopric of Panopolis, a suffragan of Antinoë in Thebais Prima, is included…
Mosaic of Dionysus from Antioch