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OXYRRYNCHOS (Ancient city) EGYPT
Oxyrynchus (Oxurunchos, Strab. xvii. p. 812; Ptol. iv. 5. § 59; Steph.
B. s. v.; Amm. Marc. xxii. 16; Oxyrinchum, It. Anton. p. 157. ed. Parthey: Eth.
Oxurunchites), was the chief town of the Nomos Oxyrynchites, in Lower Aegypt.
The appellation of the nome and its capital was derived from a fish of the sturgeon
species (Accipenser Sturio, Linnaeus; Athen. vii. p. 312), which was an object
of religious worship, and had a temple dedicated to it. (Aelian, Hist. An. x.
46; Plut. Is. et Osir. c. 7.) The town stood nearly opposite Cynopolis, between
the western bank of the Nile and the Joseph-canal, lat. 28° 6' N. At the village
of Bekneseh, which stands on part of the site of Oxyrynchus, there are some remains--broken
columns and cornices--of the ancient city (Jomard, Descript. de l'Egypte, vol.
ii. ch. 16. p. 55 ; Champollion, l'Egypte, vol. i. p. 303, seq.); and a single
Corinthian column (Denon, l'Egypte, pl. 31), without leaves or volutes, partly
buried in the sand, indicates a structure of a later period, probably of the age
of Diocletian. Oxyrynchus became the site of an episcopal see, and Apollonius
dated from thence an epistle to the Council of Seleuceia (Epiphan. Haeres. lxxiii.)
Roman coins were minted at Oxyrynchus in the age of Hadrian and Antoninus Pius.
(1.) Hadrian, with the reverse of Pallas, holding in her right hand a statuette
of Victory, in her left a spear; or, (2.) Serapis holding a stag in his right
hand. (3.) Antoninus, with a reverse, Pallas holding in her right hand an axe,
in her left a statuette of Victory. (Eckhel, vol. iv. p. 112.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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