Antinoöpolis

Also known as el-Scheich Ibada, Antinoopolis, Antinoë, Sheik Abāda, Sheikh 'Ibada

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Settlement.pushpin_map: Egypt
Settlement.name: Antinoöpolis
Settlement.image_skyline: File:Antinoë (Antinoöpolis). Vue de l'arc de triomphe.jpg
Settlement.imagesize: 300px
Settlement.image_caption: Antinoöpolis: 19th century AD view of the triumphal arch, from Description de l'Égypte.
Settlement.pushpin_label_position: bottom
Settlement.pushpin_mapsize: 300
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Egypt
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: City
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Minya
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Town
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Mallawi
Settlement.government_type: Minya Governorate
Settlement.unit_pref: Imperial
Settlement.population_blank1_title: Ethnicities
Settlement.timezone: EST
Settlement.utc_offset: +2

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Population: 7155
Elevation: 52
Image: SheikhAbadaTempleRamses3.jpg

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Commons category: Antinoöpolis
native label: Ἀντινόου πόλις

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History
New Kingdom
Roman period
Byzantine period
Medieval period
Structure and organization
Archaeological finds
Albert Gayet
Antinoöpolis today
References
Bibliography
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Antinoöpolis (also Antinoopolis, Antinoë, Antinopolis; ; Antinow; , modern , modern ''Sheikh 'Ibada or Sheik Abāda'') was a city founded at an older Egyptian village by the Roman emperor Hadrian to commemorate his deified young beloved, Antinoüs, on the east bank of the Nile, not far from the site in Upper Egypt where Antinoüs drowned in 130 AD. Antinoöpolis was a little to the south of the Egyptian village of Besa (), named after the god and oracle of Bes. Antinoöpolis was built at the foot of the hill upon which Besa was seated. The city is located nearly opposite Hermopolis Magna and was connected to Berenice Troglodytica by the Via Hadriana. alt=Bust of Antinoüs-Osiris|thumb|Bust of Antinous|Antinoüs-Osiris from Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli ([[Louvre)]] thumb|Fragment of a cloth from the tomb of Sabina, a 4–5th century woman in Antinoöpolis, showing Bellerophon and [[Pegasus trampling on the Chimera. (Louvre)]] thumb|Late Roman column capital from the north necropolis ([[National Archaeological Museum, Florence)]]

== History == ===New Kingdom=== During the New Kingdom, the city, Hir-we, was the location of Ramesses II's great temple, dedicated to the gods of Khmun and Heliopolis.