Sidfa

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Sidfa
صدفا
Sidfa is located in Egypt
Sidfa
Sidfa
Location in Egypt
Coordinates: 26°57′55″N 31°22′51″E / 26.96528°N 31.38083°E / 26.96528; 31.38083Coordinates: 26°57′55″N 31°22′51″E / 26.96528°N 31.38083°E / 26.96528; 31.38083
Country Egypt
GovernorateAsyut
Time zoneUTC+2 (EST)
O6O34
R4
X1 Q3
X1
O49
ḥt sḥtp[1][2]
Era: Ptolemaic dynasty
(305–30 BC)
Egyptian hieroglyphs

Sidfa is a town in Egypt.[3] It is located near the city of Abnub in the Asyut Governorate. It was known in antiquity by the Greeks as Hisopis.[2]





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  1. ^ Gauthier, Henri (1927). Dictionnaire des Noms Géographiques Contenus dans les Textes Hiéroglyphiques Vol. 4. p. 128.
  2. ^ a b Brugsch, Heinrich (1879). Dictionnaire géographique de l'ancienne Egypte: contenant par ordre alphabétique la nomenclature comparée des noms propres géographiques qui se rencontrent sur les monuments et dans les papyrus. J. C. Hinrichs. pp. 735–736.
  3. ^ Buhūth Al-Qāhirah Fī Alʾulūm Al-ijtimaʾīyah. American University in Cairo. 1982.