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ID: 1099727
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1099727
Record Type:
administrative
Canopus (deserted settlement)
Coordinates:
Lat: 31 19 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 31.3167
decimal degrees
Long: 030 03 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 30.0500
decimal degrees
Note:
Ancient city, pleasure resort and pilgrimage center located 12 miles east of Alexandria, near the modern village of Abu Qīr; ruins include the temple of the god Serapis.
Names:
Canopus
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Canobus
(
H
,
O
)
Kanopus
(
H
,
O
)
Pe Gewat
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Egypt
(nation) (
P
)
............
Al Iskandarīyah
(governorate) (
P
)
................
Canopus
(deserted settlement) (
P
)
Place Types:
deserted settlement (
preferred
,
C
)
............
ancient pleasure resort for the people of Alexandria; pilgrimage center until the 4th cen. AD
archaeological site (
C
)
ruins (
C
)
inhabited place (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Canobus..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 151
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Canopus..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 151
.................
GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998)
15307
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
38
Kanopus..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 151
Pe Gewat..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 151
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 151
..................
GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998)
15307
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-292764
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
38
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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