Sheneset-Chenoboskion

al-Qasr wa as-Sayyad
القصر و الصياد
Chenoboskion
al-Qasr wa as-Sayyad is located in Egypt
al-Qasr wa as-Sayyad
al-Qasr wa as-Sayyad
Location in Egypt
Coordinates: 26°3′27.39″N 32°18′30.74″E / 26.0576083°N 32.3085389°E / 26.0576083; 32.3085389
Country Egypt
GovernorateQena
MarkazNag Hammadi
Population
 • Total13,151
Time zoneUTC+2 (EST)

al-Qasr wa as-Sayyad (Arabic: القصر و الصياد) is a village in Nag Hammadi district of Qena Governorate, Egypt.

An early center of Christianity in the Thebaid, Roman Egypt, a site frequented by Desert Fathers from the 3rd century and the site of a monastery from the 4th, it was earlier known as Chenoboskion (Greek Χηνοβόσκιον "geese pasture"), also called Chenoboscium /ˌkɛnəˈboʊʃəm/, Chenoboskia (Greek: Χηνοβοσκία, Arabic: شينوبسكيا, romanized: Šinubuskiya)[1] and Sheneset (Coptic: ϣⲉⲛⲉⲥⲏⲧ, romanized: Šénesēt, lit. 'tree(s) of Seth', Arabic: شاناساد, romanized: Šanasad).[2][3][4][5][6]

The Nag Hammadi library, a collection of 2nd-century Gnostic texts discovered in 1945, was found at Jabal al-Ṭārif in the Nile cliffs to the north-west.[7]

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  6. ^ "TM Places". www.trismegistos.org. Retrieved 2023-03-07.
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