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Buto
Sign in to saveButo (, , Butu), Bouto, Butus (, Boutos) or Butosus was a city that the Ancient Egyptians called Per-Wadjet. It was located 95 km east of Alexandria in the Nile Delta of Egypt. What in classical times the Greeks called Buto, stood about midway between the Taly (Bolbitine) and Thermuthiac (Sebennytic) branches of the Nile, a few kilometers north of the east-west Butic River and on the southern shore of the Butic Lake (, Boutikē limnē).
Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Buto
- Ancient site.alternate_name
- Per-WadjetButusTell El Fara'in
- Ancient site.image
- Ruins of mudbrick buildings on the northern mound of Buto-Desouk.jpg
- Ancient site.condition
- In ruins
- Ancient site.caption
- View of Buto
- Ancient site.map_type
- Egypt
- Ancient site.location
- Desouk,Egypt
- Ancient site.region
- Lower Egypt
- Ancient site.type
- Settlement
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- tell
- Country
- Egypt
- Located in
- Kafr el-Sheikh Governorate
- Elevation
- 2
- Image
- Buto5-Desouk.jpg
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- Commons category
- Buto
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- History
- Earliest texts
- Ptolemaic period
- Archeology
- See also
- References
- External links
Buto (, , Butu), Bouto, Butus (, Boutos) or Butosus was a city that the Ancient Egyptians called Per-Wadjet. It was located 95 km east of Alexandria in the Nile Delta of Egypt. What in classical times the Greeks called Buto, stood about midway between the Taly (Bolbitine) and Thermuthiac (Sebennytic) branches of the Nile, a few kilometers north of the east-west Butic River and on the southern shore of the Butic Lake (, Boutikē limnē).
Today, it is called '''Tell El Fara'in ("Hill of the Pharaohs"), near the villages of Ibtu (or Abtu), Kom Butu, and the city of Desouk ().
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Buto” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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