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COPTOS (Egyptian Keft, Kebto)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 113 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COPTOS (See also:Egyptian Keft, Kebto)  , the See also:modern KurT (a See also:village with railway station a See also:short distance from the See also:west See also:bank of the See also:Nile about 25 M. See also:north-See also:east of See also:Thebes), an See also:ancient See also:city, See also:capital of the fifth See also:nome of Upper See also:Egypt, and the starting-point of several roads to the Red See also:Sea, of which that which passes along the valley See also:running due east to Kosseir past the ancient quarries of Hammamat was the most frequented, until the See also:foundation of See also:Berenice (q.v.) by See also:Ptolemy Philadelphus made an even more important See also:line of See also:traffic to the See also:south-west . The growth of See also:trade with See also:Arabia and See also:India thereafter raised See also:Coptos to See also:great commercial prosperity; but in A.D . 292 its See also:share in the See also:rebellion against See also:Diocletian led to an almost See also:total devastation . It again appears, however, as a See also:place of importance, and as the seat of a consider-able See also:Christian community, though the stream of traffic turned aside to the neighbouring Kt-is . During See also:part of the 7th See also:century it was called Justinianopolis in See also:honour of the See also:emperor Justinian . The See also:local See also:god of Coptos, as of Khemmis (See also:Akhmim, q.v.), was the ithyphallic See also:Min; but in See also:late times See also:Isis was of equal importance in the city . Min was especially the god of the See also:desert routes . See also:Petrie's excavations on the site of the See also:temple brought to See also:light remains of all periods, the most remarkable See also:objects being three very See also:primitive See also:limestone statues of the god with figures of an See also:elephant, swords of See also:sword-See also:fish, sea-shells, &c., engraved upon them: there were also found some very See also:peculiar terra-cottas of the Old See also:Kingdom, and the See also:decree of an Antef belonging to the latter part of the See also:Middle Kingdom, deposing the monarch for siding with the See also:king's enemy .

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