Βουτώ | |
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| Alternative name | Per-Wadjet Butus Tell El Fara'in |
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| Location | Desouk,Egypt |
| Region | Lower Egypt |
| Coordinates | 31°11′47″N 30°44′41″E / 31.19639°N 30.74472°E |
| Type | Settlement |
| Site notes | |
| Condition | In ruins |
Buto (Ancient Greek: Βουτώ, Arabic: بوتو, Butu),[1] Bouto, Butus (Ancient Greek: Βοῦτος, Boutos)[2] or Butosus was a city that the Ancient Egyptians called Per-Wadjet. It was located 95 km east of Alexandria in the Nile Delta of Egypt. What in classical times the Greeks called Buto, stood about midway between the Taly (Bolbitine) and Thermuthiac (Sebennytic) branches of the Nile, a few kilometers north of the east-west Butic River and on the southern shore of the Butic Lake (Greek: Βουτικὴ λίμνη, Boutikē limnē).[3][4]
Today, it is called Tell El Fara'in ("Hill of the Pharaohs"), near the villages of Ibtu (or Abtu), Kom Butu, and the city of Desouk (Arabic: دسوق).[5]
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium.
- ^ Herodotus ii. 59, 63, 155.
- ^ Strabo xvii. p. 802.
- ^ Wilson, John A. (October 1955). "Buto and Hierakonpolis in the Geography of Egypt". Journal of Near Eastern Studies. 14 (4). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press: 209–236. doi:10.1086/371289. JSTOR 543019. S2CID 129238547.
- ^ Wilkinson, R. H. (2000). The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson. p. 104. ISBN 9780500051009.