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CHRISTOPHER BARON

University of Notre Dame

City in EGYPT, on the island of PROSOPITIS in the Nile DELTA which was formed by the Canobic and Sebynnetic branches of the river and a CANAL connecting them (cf. BA 74 D3). According to Herodotus, barges from Atarbechis travel to the rest of Egypt collecting the bones of dead bulls in order to bury them in one place (2.41.5). The city also contains a sanctuary to APHRODITE (Egyptian Hathor). The precise location of Herodotus’ Atarbechis is unclear; the best candidate, the Egyptian city of (Pr) Ḥwt Ḥr Mfk(3t), “House of Hathor Mistress of Turquoise” (modern Terenouthis/Kom Abu Billu), lies on the western, not eastern, bank of the Canobic branch (Robinson 1999, 147 n. 42).

SEE ALSO: Burial Customs; Canobus; Cattle; Nile