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Aphroditopolitan (not comparable)
- Of or relating to the ancient city of Aphroditopolis.
1893, Sir Erasmus Wilson, Egypt of the Past, page 502:[…] their glorious rising, or birth, was in the city of Kheb in the Aphroditopolitan Nome.
1911, British Museum. Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, Hieroglyphic Texts from Egyptian Stelae, &c., in the British Museum:Limestone stele, in the form of a false door of Ka-utch-ankh, district chief of the Aphroditopolitan nome, captain of the king's guard and overseer of the cattle belonging to the guard of the court.
2000 December 1, Aidan Dodson, Monarchs of the Nile, American University in Cairo Press, →ISBN:Inyotef II would appear to have been a brother of Inyotef I, and was responsible for the addition of the Thinite (Abydene) nome to his patrimony; [I made] its northern boundary as far as the Aphroditopolitan nome.
2016, Alan Cameron, Wandering Poets and Other Essays on Late Greek Literature and Philosophy, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 11:We possess no fewer than seven from the prolific pen of Dioscorus—on the wedding of the magnificent count Callinicus, the most splendid Isacius, and various other distinguished Aphroditopolitan bridegrooms.