Hurbayt
horbit
هربيط DalaM | |
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| Country | File:Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt |
| Governorate | Sharqia |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Horbit (Arabic: هربيط) is a town in Sharqia Governorate of Egypt.
It's an ancient town referred to in a stele of the 7th century BC,[1] and described by Herodotus,[2] Strabo,[3] and Pliny.[4]
It served as the capital of the nome of Pharbaethites/Lapt in Lower Egypt.[5][1]
Etymology
[edit | edit source]The town's Arabic name comes from Coptic Pharbait (Coptic: ⲫⲁⲣⲃⲁⲓⲧ), which in turn is derived from Ancient Egyptian: Pr-Ḥrw-mr.ty, lit. 'house of the two eyed Horus'.[6] It was also known as Sheten (Ancient Egyptian: Štꜣn).[7]
In Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt it was known as Pharbaithos (Ancient Greek: Φάρβαιθος) or Pharbaethus. This name is reproduced under the form Karbeuthos in George of Cyprus.[8]
Ecclesiastical history
[edit | edit source]The original diocese was a suffragan of Leontopolis, in Augustamnica Secunda, Egypt.
There is a record of Bishop Arbetion at Nicæa in 325,[9] and Bishop Theodorus in 1086,[10] but it is possible that the latter was bishop of another Pharbætus situated further to the west, and which according to Vansleb was equally a Coptic see. John of Nikiu[11] relates that under the Emperor Phocas (602–10) the clerics of the province killed the Greek governor Theophilus.
It remains a Roman Catholic titular see under the name Pharbaetus.
See also
[edit | edit source]References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b Eugène Revillout, "Acte de fondation d'une chapelle à Hor-Merti dans la ville de Pharbaetus", Revue Égyptologique, 2:1:32 (1881) full text
- ^ II, 166.
- ^ XVII, i, 20.
- ^ Natural History V, 9, 11.
- ^ Karl Baedeker, Egypt: handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt..., 1885 (2nd edition), p. 33. full text
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- ^ "Descriptio orbis romani", ed. Gelzer, 706.
- ^ Gelzer, "Patrum nicænorum nomina", LX.
- ^ Renaudot, "Historia patriarcharum alexandrinorum", 458.
- ^ Chronicle, CV.
Sources
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- Heinrich Gelzer, Georgii Cyprii Descriptio orbis romani, 114–16;
- ROUGÉ, Géographie ancienne de la Basse Egypte (Paris, 1891), 66–74;
- Émile Amélineau, La Géographie de l'Egypte à l' époque copte (Paris, 1893), 330.
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