Cusae

Cusae
ⲕⲱⲥⲉⲓ
ⲕⲟⲥⲉⲓ
القوصية
City
Old map of Cusae from Description de l'Égypte
Old map of Cusae from Description de l'Égypte
Cusae is located in Egypt
Cusae
Cusae
Coordinates: 27°26′40″N 30°49′00″E / 27.44444°N 30.81667°E / 27.44444; 30.81667
Country Egypt
Time zoneUTC+2 (EST)
A39sy
niwt
or
A38
ḳsj[1][2]
in hieroglyphs

Cusae (Ancient Greek: Κοῦσαι or Κῶς; Coptic: ⲕⲱⲥⲉⲓ or ⲕⲟⲥⲉⲓ)[2] was a city in Upper Egypt. Its Ancient Egyptian name was qjs (variant qsy), conventionally rendered Qis or Kis, with many further transliterations such as Qosia. Today, the town is known as El Quseyya, and is located on the west bank of the Nile in the Asyut Governorate.

  1. ^ Wallis Budge, E. A. (1920). An Egyptian hieroglyphic dictionary: with an index of English words, king list and geological list with indexes, list of hieroglyphic characters, coptic and semitic alphabets, etc. Vol II. John Murray. p. 1044.
  2. ^ a b Gauthier, Henri (1928). Dictionnaire des Noms Géographiques Contenus dans les Textes Hiéroglyphiques Vol. 5. pp. 164, 165.