LC control no. | n 91128297 |
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Geographic heading | Oxyrhynchos (Egypt) |
Variant(s) | Oxyrhynchus (Egypt) Oxyrynkhos (Egypt) Oxyrynchus (Egypt) Permezet (Egypt) Pemdji (Egypt) |
See also | Bahnasā (Egypt) |
Special note | SUBJECT USAGE: This heading is not valid for use as a subject. Works about this place are entered under Bahnasā (Egypt) |
Found in | Canoby C. A guide to the archaeological sites of Israel, Egypt, and North Africa, c1990: p. 159 (Oxyrhynchus: once a Greek town and a Coptic center, now the town of El-Bahnasa; 125 mi. S. of Cairo) Brill's 1st encyc. of Islam (Al-Bahnasā: a town in Egypt, now an unimportant village of 150; was in antiquity a famous town; the Egyptian Permezet and the Coptic Pemdji) BGN gaz., Egypt (Oxyrhynchos; variants: Oxyrynchus, Oxyrynkhos, now Al Bahnasā) |