Oxyrhynchus
Sign in to saveOxyrhynchus ( ; , ; ; ), also known by its modern name Al-Bahnasa (), is a city in Middle Egypt located about 160 km south-southwest of Cairo in Minya Governorate. It is also an important archaeological site. Since the late 19th century, the area around Oxyrhynchus has been excavated almost continually, yielding an enormous collection of papyrus texts dating from the Ptolemaic Kingdom and Roman Egypt. They also include a few vellum manuscripts, and more recent Arabic manuscripts on paper (for example, the medieval P. Oxy. VI 1006).
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Oxyrhynchus
- Settlement.other_name
- Al-Bahnasa
- Settlement.image_skyline
- File:منطقة شهداء البهنسا.jpg
- Settlement.caption
- Al-Bahnasa Martyr district, a cemetery of 5,000 prominent early Muslims during Early Muslim conquests
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Egypt
- Settlement.pushpin_relief
- 1
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300px
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Governorate
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Minya
- Settlement.timezone
- EET
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +2
- Settlement.timezone_DST
- EEST
- Settlement.utc_offset_DST
- +3
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
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Article
15 sectionsContents
- History
- Ancient Egyptian era
- Ptolemaic era
- Roman era
- Arab era
- Modern era
- Archaeological excavation
- Archaeological structures of Muslim conquest
- See also
- Appendix
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
- [[:Category:Oxyrhynchus papyri|Oxyrhynchus papyri]] volumes
Oxyrhynchus ( ; , ; ; ), also known by its modern name Al-Bahnasa (), is a city in Middle Egypt located about 160 km south-southwest of Cairo in Minya Governorate. It is also an important archaeological site. Since the late 19th century, the area around Oxyrhynchus has been excavated almost continually, yielding an enormous collection of papyrus texts dating from the Ptolemaic Kingdom and Roman Egypt. They also include a few vellum manuscripts, and more recent Arabic manuscripts on paper (for example, the medieval P. Oxy. VI 1006).
==History== left|thumb|The medjed or oxyrhynchus worshipped as a deity