APHRODITO´POLIS, APHRODITO, VENERIS OPPIDUM (Ἀφροδίτης πόλις, Ἀφροδιτόπολις, Ἀφροδίτω : Eth. Ἀφροδιτοπολίτης), the name of several cities in Egypt. I. In Lower Egypt. 1. [ATARBECHIS.] 2. A town of the Nomos Leontopolites. (Strab. 17. p. 802.)—II. In the Heptanomis, or Middle Egypt. 3. AFRODITO( Itin. Ant. p. 168: Ἀφροδίτω, Hieroc. p. 730, Atfyeh, mounds, but no Ru.), a considerable city on the E. side of the Nile; capital of the Nomos Aphroditopoltes. (Strab. 17. p. 809; Ptol.) It was an episcopal see, down to the Arab conquest. Its coins are extant, of the reigns of Trajan and Hadrian, with the epigraph ΑΦΠΟΔΕΙΤΟΠΟΛΙ. (Rasche, s. v.)—3. In Upper Egypt, or the Thebais. 4. ( Tachta) on the W. side of the Nile, but at some distance from the river, below Ptolemais and Panopolis; capital of the Nomos Aphroditopolites (Plin. Nat. 5.9, 10. s. 11, Veneris iterum, to distinguish it from No. 5; Strab. 17. p. 813; Agatharch. de Rub. Mar. p. 22; Prokesch, Erinnerungen, vol. 1. p. 152.) 5. ( Deir, Ru.), on the W. side of the Nile, much higher up than the former, and, like it, a little distance from the river; in the Nomos Hermonthites, between Thebes and Apollonopolis Magna; and a little NW. of Latopolis. (Plin. Nat. 5.10. s. 11.)
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