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[ʔeftˤ]; Coptic: Ⲕⲉϥⲧ Keft or Kebto; Egyptian Gebtu; Ancient Greek: Κόπτος Coptos / Koptos; Roman Justinianopolis) is a city in the Qena Governorate of Egypt...

The Coptos Decree of Nubkheperre Intef is a legal ruling written in hieroglyphic on the wall of the Min-temple in Coptos. Wikisource has original text...

numbered with letters of the Latin alphabet, starting with "Coptos Decree a" and ending with "Coptos Decree r". The earliest of the series were issued by Pepi...

Dynasty. Rahotep seem to be attested at Abydos and Coptos. Rahotep is known from a stele found at Coptos reporting the restoration of the temple of Min....

Copto-Arabic literature is the literature of the Copts written in Arabic. It is distinct from Coptic literature, which is literature written in the Coptic...

on a single decree, the Coptos Decree R, now in the Egyptian Museum, JE 41894. The decree concerns the temple of Min at Coptos, exempting it from dues...

Shemay is buried in a mudbrick mastaba just south of Coptos. Shemay is known primarily from the Coptos Decrees, a series of decrees by various king of the...

Herui (the "double falcon or Horuses"), the 5th nome god of Upper Egypt in Coptos Heru-pa-khered ("Horus the younger", known as Harpocrates to the Greeks)...

coast at the western end of the wadi. The Hammamat route ran from Qift (or Coptos), located just north of Luxor, to Al-Qusayr on the coast of the Red Sea...

upheld left arm holding a "flail". Min's cult began and was centered around Coptos (Koptos) and Akhmim (Panopolis) of upper Egypt, where in his honour great...

Egypt.: 23  The Blemmyes attacked Coptos and Ptolemais with incursions into Upper Egypt; Probus defeated them.: 23  Coptos revolted in 293 and was destroyed...

Phoenicia to obtain cedar. Sankhkare Mentuhotep III sent an expedition from Coptos south to the land of Punt. The reign of its last king, and thus the end...

the story, the book was originally hidden at the bottom of the Nile near Coptos, where it was locked inside a series of boxes guarded by serpents. The Egyptian...

Qus (Arabic: قوص, older name Arabic: قوص واروير, romanized: qus warwir, from Coptic: ⲕⲱⲥ ⲃⲉⲣⲃⲓⲣ) is a city in the modern Qena Governorate, Egypt, located...

inscribed on a limestone slab known as Coptos Decree h and concerning offerings for the temple of Min at Coptos. One of the two existing fragments of this...

terminus of the main road from Upper Egypt. The other terminus of that road is Coptos (now Qift), an Egyptian city on the Nile, which made Berenice and Myos Hormos...

Arsinoe I of plotting against him. He repudiated her then exiled her to Coptos in Upper Egypt. It is chronologically plausible that these events were also...

at Piramesse, Heliopolis, Memphis, Athribis, Hermopolis, This, Abydos, Coptos, El Kab and various cities in Nubia. It also records that the king dispatched...

characters in Unicode Copto-Arabic literature § Allography – Literature written by Copts in Arabic. (The term "allography" is used in Copto-Arabic studies for...

completes a series of two campaigns in Upper Egypt, against the rebel cities of Coptos and Boresis, as well as the Blemmyes and Meroitic Nubians. The jurist Hermogenianus...