Bousiris (Egypt) 21 Abusir Bana - Βούσιρις

Βούσιρις - Bousiris, Bousiris was near the Phatnitic mouth of the Nile, possible birthplace of Osiris. Covered by Abusir Bana, Egypt
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Latitude: 30.912000
Longitude: 31.243000
Confidence: Medium (20170701)

Greek name: Βούσιρις
Place ID: 309312UBou
Time period: CHR
Region: Egypt
Country: Egypt
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Mod: Abusir Bana

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Modern Description: Identified with Busiris. The site is overbuilt by the modern town, and the elevation of the mound is apparent in the streets. A donation stela of Necho was found here.  A few stone monuments lie at the edges of fields west of the town.
Trismegistos Geo: 469
DARE: 28477

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Ovid, Art of Love§1.640  fields: and there were nine years of drought, then Thrasius came to Busiris, and said that Jove -1000
Ovid, Art of Love§1.650  might be propitiated by shedding a stranger’s blood. Busiris told him: ‘You become Jove’s first victim, and you be the stranger -1000
Herodotus, Histories§2.59  and devotion at the city of Bubastis for Artemis, and next at Busiris for Isis; for in this last-named city there is a very great -500
Herodotus, Histories§2.61  they celebrate the festival in honour of Isis at the city of Busiris has been told by me before: for, as I said, they beat -500
Herodotus, Histories§2.165  The districts of the Hermotybians are those of Busiris, Sais, Chemmis, Papremis, the island called Prosopitis, and the half of -500
Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers§5.78  the hand which proved fatal. He is buried in the district of Busiris near Diospolis. -325
Diodorus Siculus, Library 1-7§1.85.1  over with fine linen, and because of this the city was called Bousiris . Many other stories are told about the Apis, but we feel -100
Strabo, Geography§17.1.19  and the lakes about it, and Leontopolis; then further on, the city Busiris, in the Busirite Nome, and Cynospolis. Eratosthenes says, 'That to repel -1
Pliny the Elder, Natural History (37 books)§5.64  are the towns of Butos, Pharbaethos, Leontopolis, Athribis, the town of Isis, Busiris, Cynopolis, Aphrodites, Sais, and Naucratis, from which last some writers call -1
Pliny the Elder, Natural History (37 books)§36.76  and 7 1/2 miles from Memphis. Close by is a village called Busiris, where there are people who are used to climbing these pyramids. -1
Plutarch, Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, Moralia§150f  for harmony. Therefore it is doubtless, quoth Niloxenus, that the people of Busiris accuse us Naucratians of folly for using pipes made of asses' bones, -1
Plutarch, Of Isis and Osiris, Moralia§21  many tombs reported to be his, yet his true body lies at Busiris, for that was the place of his birth; neither can there -1
Plutarch, Of Isis and Osiris, Moralia§30  because Typhon was red-haired and of the ass's complexion. Moreover, those of Busiris and Lycopolis never make any use of trumpets, because they give a -1
Aelian, Characteristics of Animals§10.28  The people of Busiris and of Abydos in Egypt and of Lycopolis dislike the blare of -1
Porphyry, De abstinentia§4.9  of Leontopolis [or the city of the lion], and another is denominated Busiris [from an ox], and another Lycopolis [or the city of the wolf]. -1
Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica§B183.10   Bousiris : Βούσιρις, πόλις Αἰγύπτου. 'ἐν ταύτῃ Ἴσιδος μέγιστον ἱερόν. ἵδρυται δ´ ἐν -1
Ovid, Tristia (Letters from Exile)§3.11.39  EXILE AS TORTURE You’re fiercer than cruel Busiris, fiercer than Perilluswho heated the brazen bull in the slow fires, 10
Ovid, Letters from Pontus§3.6.1  speaking to an exile? Perhaps you’d have reason to be afraid with Busiris as master, or Phalaris who used to incinerate men in his bronze 12
Ptolemaeus, Geography (II-VI)§4.5.51  and metropolis Sebennotos . 62°20' . 30°20' Bousirites nome and its metropolis Bousiris . 62°30' . 30°15' Leontopolites nome and metropolis Leontopolis . 62°15' . 150
Scriptores Historia Augusta, Two Maximini§8  these virtues, however, went such cruelty that some called him Cyclops, some Busiris, and others Sciron, not a few Phalaris, and many Typhon or 200
St. Jerome, Chronicon§A293  268th Olympiad: Busiris and Coptos rebelling against the Romans, they were razed down to the 293
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